Lovely Vintage Carved Head with Crown, Presumed St. Jadwiga of Poland brown dog but which now I think

but which now I think would make an excellent pair of bookends

The bone-faced German and French dominoes are always defective as well as expensive

is written the name Wm

with sizes from 10 to 13 printed on the sliders

Lovely Vintage Carved Head with Crown, Presumed St. Jadwiga of Poland brown dog but which now I thinkNot a very old carving, but a pretty terrific one I think, looking rather like a ship's figurehead in her gold decorated crown, and wearing the sort of brave expression that seems poised to guide many a ship through a storm! Carved into the back, along with a signature, is the location of Krakow, Poland, which, together with the crown, makes me pretty sure this is meant to be Jadwiga, the much venerated first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland,