Antique Victorian Carved Ivory Wolf or Bear Glove Stretcher - Black Forest Germany Carving dore bronze frames and is flat on the

and is flat on the underside against the wrist)

Displayed with your French opaline 'egg' shaped caskets and other items from the old Palais Royal boutiques of the 1700s to 1800s

pencils or brushes beneath the tilt/braced slope

and signed by the artist who has copied the original portrait of Marie-Antoinette by artist Vigee LeBrun

What remains is a was seal

Antique Victorian Carved Ivory Wolf or Bear Glove Stretcher - Black Forest Germany Carving dore bronze frames and is flat on theI think this is a wolf, and then I look and decide it is a bear, instead. I'll leave it to you to decide. It's a wonderful old carving, figural, and in great condition there atop the handles of this extra large (gentleman's) glove stretcher from the Victorian era. There is a very old repair to one side; apparently some very strong 'bear' of a gentleman needed to pry his gloves to a much larger manly size at some point and created a break in the one