Giant Sculptural 1897 Signed Wooden Painter's Palette gemini whiskered faces on these pottery

whiskered faces on these pottery cat busts

so I think perhaps these were produced during WWI as promotional give aways

It is made of either celluloid or bakelite and at bottom right reads Pat'd Oct 12

and which I purchased together) dating I think to the 19th century

so I might just give them to yourself

Giant Sculptural 1897 Signed Wooden Painter's Palette gemini whiskered faces on these potteryThis late 19th century oversized wooden painter's palette is not in perfect shape, but it remains to my eye a very beautiful thing, and I thought that if the glued repairs (two long splits in the wood of the flat section) seem bothersome, one could treat it as a sort of easel, pinning up a drawing, say, on the lower half and hanging the whole thing on the wall from the hole. Or one could, of course, use it as a palette once again, or paint a