Early 20th C. Plated Pendant Vesta with Window to Tiny Bone Dice mermaid but this is the first

but this is the first cup without a handle I've found

The patterns in most cases appear to be photostat copies of her own hand-drawings

To me it's like a three-dimensional drawing

so this feels perhaps akin to picturing a fire drill or duck and cover exercise--but compared to similar cups from the period that usually depicted games like 'playing at marbles' or 'leap frog

with an expression that seems both surprised and keenly alert

Early 20th C. Plated Pendant Vesta with Window to Tiny Bone Dice mermaid but this is the firstSuch a fun one, found together in Vermont along with a second vesta I've listed today, and both clearly formerly part of a larger vesta collection. This one dates to the first decade of the 20th century I believe, with the tiny dice inside the round window made of bone. I've shot the with magnification, which reveals that some of the black dots have worn away or never were, so they're not so much dice to make bets on but to the naked eye they pass the