Silver Mouse Paperweight, Presumed Old Newbury Crafters for Cartier pewter box rendered very lightly and facing

rendered very lightly and facing us directly

dings and aging to the wood

super minor

upper left

Silver Mouse Paperweight, Presumed Old Newbury Crafters for Cartier pewter box rendered very lightly and facingI found this lovely silver mouse digging through a bin in a shop in southern Maine where I have, over time, turned up some amazing little treasures. It was quite tarnished, but I had a feeling about it, and it also felt vaguely familiar and, bottom line, what an elegant little mouse, with a bit of a mid century feeling about it. Anyway, a little research led me to discover an identical solid sterling silver mouse produced for Cartier by Old Newbury