Antique Whale Bone Pointing Hand Pendant with Thread Hole antique birch box 1920s-30s I think

1920s-30s I think

produced on the occasion of the 6th Annual Colonial Ball at the Hopewell Lodge

as if just floating

6 1/8" x 6 1/4"

Antique Whale Bone Pointing Hand Pendant with Thread Hole antique birch box 1920s-30s I think(First photo is a composite, showing both sides.) Carved as a pendant, but a ladies tool as well, with a small opening created by the wrapped fingers of the hand, large enough to run a thread or thin cord through, with the extended finger then useful for pulling that thread or cord through a seam or hole. Sailor whaler made I believe, of whalebone, 19th century. Quite a nice thing to wear around one's neck now. 1 7 8" long, very good antique