Featured Scale models, show them if you got them

LOVE the little ivories ! And the pocket knives too.

 

Inuit Ivory....the bun bun may be Eskimo...
But none are a POW war ship !!!!!!

Or Johnny's rooms !!!
I'd like to make a reservation.....but can't find them on Trivago !!!

 

If my eyes don't deceive me, those little 'pocket' knives are little 'switch' blades, aren't they Komo??? Once upon a time I remember them being illegal (full sized anyway...) to carry!!!!! (But STILL VERY KOOL!!!!!)

 

....& Shushhhh !!!

 

I don't recall ever having anything I might consider a scale model, but I did have this wood carving of a Norwegian Stave Church (possibly Fantoff - destroyed by arson)

 

I like little things....some are probably not technically scale models, but they are little....


masks; Charlie G. Walkus and Russell Smith:



hat, silk, 1" diameter, maker unknown, but they knew the correct weaving patterns.

 

Various carvings in wood, stone, and ivory, 1" to 2":

 

Here's one that really is a scale model. It is 2' long, and represents a native fish wheel from Alaska or the coast of British Columbia. Made of logs, and tied up near the river-bank, the current would turn the wheel, and salmon would get trapped in the buckets, and then dumped into the holding box. With luck, a family could harvest enough fish to last them until the next season.
I have a native friend who recalls as a little girl, sleeping in the fishing shack, and all night long the sounds would be "thump........flop, flop, flop" as fish fell into the box and flopped around.




real one:

 

WELL, THIS has been a FUN time!!!!! EVERYONE has GREAT STUFF!!!!!! THANKS ALL FOR SHOWING!!!!!! Of course, MORE ALWAYS WELCOME, if there IS more!!!!

 

You complete me....Brother !!!!

 

Left, the smallest Anri carved madonna I have ever seen, South Tyrole, Italy.
Right, antique Serbian travel icon, given to me by my mother by way of blessing when I moved to student digs.
Regular size paper clip.

 

Two Southwest NA pots.
Left by R. Gachupin, Jemez Pueblo, right by Gloria Geshupin, Zia Pueblo.
And that paper clip again.

 

Going through a box today, I came across these (which I had 100% forgotten). Again, no scale given, so I guess no one's idea of scale models.

A brace of Navy Colt pistols


Well... toy cap guns (each 9" long)