Memory Ware Jug with Pair of Tintype Portraits, c. Early 20th century hand-lettered and then these terrific bone

and then these terrific bone medallions (round on one side

and then bench sitting elders

I think I'd be way less interested in the cast plaster portraits created from this than I am in the mold itself

but one is now stripped of all of them and the other holds just a couple of pages--making the perfect now to use as portfolios of sorts

Erongarícuaro

Memory Ware Jug with Pair of Tintype Portraits, c. Early 20th century hand-lettered and then these terrific boneWhile I appreciate them, I don't usually go for memory jugs; somehow they tend to feel a bit too cumbersome, or messy, or clunky, or something, to me. But I fell for this one, of just the right scale for my taste, and with what I find a very satisfying feeling of resolve and succinctness to it. Lots embedded in it to discover, including many sorts of buttons, a bennington marble, a bisque baby head (and a leg elsewhere too), a soldier tobacco tag, a