Satisfying Old Mechanical Tin Forked Tongs tiny ship in bottle 7 1/8" tall

7 1/8" tall

18" x 18" x 1 5/8"

and then more or less sequentially

with "hook" that folds out to be used to pull one's laces tight

and some smearing to the text below

Satisfying Old Mechanical Tin Forked Tongs tiny ship in bottle 7 1/8" tallAs I've noted elsewhere (because I'm proud of myself for doing it!), I spent several days over the holidays weeding through old boxes of stuff, almost all of which I dropped to Goodwill or boxed back up for the flea market next summer. But these I couldn't put away, they're too satisfying, and I could spend half the day just opening and closing and them, with the double hinged design making that feel a bit like a Rube Goldberg ian sort of event! The