Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin nine pin kegelsport Plus a hollowed out half

Plus a hollowed out half walnut shell to pile them into

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

with pretty scalloped edge on top and bottom

Some marks are incised on the bottom

Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin nine pin kegelsport Plus a hollowed out halfI 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,