Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! carved wooden woman from the curtains behind her

from the curtains behind her to the side of her throne-like chair to the several overlapping rugs at her feet

7 5/8" t x 2 1/8" d and in very good condition

including along the edges of the exterior

with a clothespin glued to a piece of wood for the clip

Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! carved wooden woman from the curtains behind herI 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,