For many years now, these toggles have been in my collection and every time I look at them I'm continuously intrigued. Pudgy and ovular, they're wrapped in carvings upon carvings with a busy texture in black in one case and chocolate brown in the other. While the designs are similar, it looks like the brown dude got a deeper treatment with the sculpted points achieved as gouges whereas the same design on the black toggle is more superficial. I've always referred to these toggles as "deformed pine cones" although now that I'm studying them today, I see them as grotesque eggs. Both buttons tested positive for Bakelite. True oddities, circa 1928.
-Sherbert McGee
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