SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber Piatnik & Söhne I'd guess the thread connecting

I'd guess the thread connecting the handle to his hand and at his shoulder replaced the original thread

smaller pedestal: 2 1/2" tall

which photos can't do justice

dipped in white slip and then hand-painted--ivery much n the manner of the work of famous father and son Mexican folk artists Aurelio and Francisco Flores from Izúcar de Matamoros

With these elegant stone walls

SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber Piatnik & Söhne I'd guess the thread connectingA bit gruesome perhaps, but I love a homemade mechanical object, and to my mind a homemade mousetrap is compelling in a similar way to a bee box an individualistic and often make do solution to the problem at hand. I'm not 100% sure exactly how this one was set, but depressing the wire handle lowers a wire loop inside the carved out barrel, while releasing it raises that loop, trapping the proverbial mouse inside, and it seems piercing its back with a