Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! old wooden decoy with a bit of a

with a bit of a Diane Arbus feeling about it

One side is more weathered than the other--both great

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but also feel to me like quite a tender

5" tall handle to top

Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! old wooden decoy with a bit of aI love this thing. The wonderful dealer I purchased it from (an artist who loves curious little things like this as much as I do) thought it along the lines of a cracker jack box ciphering wheel decoder, and I think that's right, creating a correspondence between numbers and letters, which one could use for writing, or deciphering, messages written in secret code. The center dial turns, and is incised with lines, as is the outer disk. So one course,