Crazy Looking Early 20th Century Lower Jaw Dental Model traditional costume but I've found it rare

but I've found it rare to find ones that elevate gluing to shells onto a box to something that feels like an art form

with just a bit of wear to the interior

with the original red and black paint

probably in the 1970s or 80s

as the trunk is not a spout

Crazy Looking Early 20th Century Lower Jaw Dental Model traditional costume but I've found it rareI believe this is likely German and dates to the 1920s or so, and in the ensuing 100 years has lost a fair amount of its top layer veneer of sorts, which would have included labels for the individual molars. I love it precisely for its decay, amazing surface, and terrific object hood, recognizable as a jaw but also looking a bit like a model of earth strata, and then perhaps best of all what look like tiny faces on many of the teeth, eyes peering out