Glass and Mercury Antique Hydrometer in Original Wooden Box linen pillowcases with a few small hairline

with a few small hairline cracks around the neck of the crane on side 1 and one scrape to the surface of the lower section of the planter on side 2

Widely collected by museums

"Burial dolls" have continued to be produced by contemporary indigenous and Mestizo cultures of the Andean region

unexpected surprise

Signed with what looks like "Jani" and stamped "Brandon Stoneware" - a pottery studio in Brandon

Glass and Mercury Antique Hydrometer in Original Wooden Box linen pillowcases with a few small hairlineAt first I thought this antique Griebel Instrument Co. hydrometer was an old thermometer, until I noted that the numbers on the side run 0 to 6 rather than showing temperatures. Ive since learned that a hydrometer is used for measuring the relative density of liquids based on buoyancy: you pour liquid into a container, lower the hydrometer into it until it floats, and then the point at which the surface of the liquid touches the stem of the hydrometer