Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! carved wooden woman including along the edges of

including along the edges of the exterior

A nice one for a kitchen shelf

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

perhaps a bit like rummy

Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! carved wooden woman including along the edges ofI 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,