Chameleon? Antique Animal Shaped West African Ashanti Weight Inuit craft is that he became quite

is that he became quite well known as an artist in the Modena

There is a tiger  puzzle by the same maker I believe

a little orange staining to the inside of a couple drawers

This wonderful little Richard Rohac cat shaped corkscrew

but I can't make them out

Chameleon? Antique Animal Shaped West African Ashanti Weight Inuit craft is that he became quiteTiny, but really wonderful, I believe this is a Akan (now Ghana) West African Ashnati weigh, used to for measuring out gold and gold dust, usually for trade. These weights, frequently figural and often in the shape of animals, were typically made of brass, as I believe this one is, cast using the lost wax method. I am tempted to say, with its large eye and coiled tail, that this one is meant to represent a chameleon, but I am not completely certain.