Lovely Collection of Three Early 19th C. Carved Bone Teetotem (Game Spinners) vintage blocks set I look as readymade painterly

I look as readymade painterly sculptures

2 1/4" wide

I am completely taken with this the sculpture

but they’d be equally pretty thrown in glass or tin and placed at the ready to use—and the size

depicting the grand Governor Robie

Lovely Collection of Three Early 19th C. Carved Bone Teetotem (Game Spinners) vintage blocks set I look as readymade painterlyI have always wanted one of these so what a thing to find three together! They are early 19th century bone "teetotems" used for games, including "put and take," essentially like dice. Two of these are eight sided, the white one six sided, and all of them spin brilliantly, like tops. (Pure pleasure setting them spinning, and all sorts of games one might play with them.) Possibly sailor made, possibly prisoner of war, it is hard to know for sure, but