Crazy Looking Early 20th Century Lower Jaw Dental Model traditional costume reiterated with hand-written price stickers

reiterated with hand-written price stickers on the back

probably in the 1970s or 80s

with the original red and black paint

I'm not sure if stuffed with sawdust or what

A pretty pair to set somewhere to admire if not to put the ball to use mending a sock now and then

Crazy Looking Early 20th Century Lower Jaw Dental Model traditional costume reiterated with hand-written price stickersI 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