SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber mustached man including exertions of power and

including exertions of power and expressions of vulnerability--and feeling pretty archetypal as they do

behind glass: 15 9/16" x 12 3/4"

I believe this one dates from the late 19th century

at some point along the way becoming the instrument of a Geraldine Wallace

but both with printed text on one side

SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber mustached man including exertions of power andA bit gruesome perhaps, but I love a homemade mechanical object, and to my mind a homemade mousetrap is compelling in a similar way to a bee box an individualistic and often make do solution to the problem at hand. I'm not 100% sure exactly how this one was set, but depressing the wire handle lowers a wire loop inside the carved out barrel, while releasing it raises that loop, trapping the proverbial mouse inside, and it seems piercing its back with a