Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin nine pin kegelsport and with the weight balanced

and with the weight balanced squarely on her on her shoulders she serves as quite a sturdy handle for carrying the load

The playing board itself is covered with glass and framed in four pieces of wood nailed to the larger board

which led me to learn that images of babies spilling and dropping things (usually in tears) seems to have been a bit of a thing in the early years of the 20th century

Plus a hollowed out half walnut shell to pile them into

and looks great on the counter or shelf

Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin nine pin kegelsport and with the weight balancedI didn't know these were a thing, but have learned that they very much are, some quite finely done, this one more humble but I think pretty charming still. Essex crystals are also known as 'reverse intaglios, ' made of a cabochon of colourless rock quartz that has been carved on the flat side after which the details of the design are painted, creating a three dimensional 'trompe l'oeil effect'. I believe that is the case here, or at least it was made,