This will keep you all occupied :-)…someone will ID in 2 seconds flat.. 😉

Tried the Goggle Image search with no avail.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/stYd4x]P1160634[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

It’s about two inches tall.. mayby Brass or Bronze.

Had it since I was kid and it was my Nan’s before. Someone suggested it might be a form of ancient currency ??

Couple more pix here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/with/16759252584/

Mayby a weight ?

Some kind of door knocker?

what’s in the bowl?
baby robin?

Let’s look at the evidence…

A thin chap in a thong with what looks like a monkey head is fastening a bewildered bird to the shorn roots of an upturned tree…

So on that basis I have absolutely no idea. 🙁

No idea but from the way he/it is girding themself, I’d rather not be the bird. Let’s hope there’s no ‘after’ companion piece 😯

Part of a month-by-month promotion building up to a complete collection of famous phrases or sayings, No 3, ‘a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
😀

@cz

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Some info here…

http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/collections/collectionsummaries/archaeologyandworldcultures/worldcultures/asanteweights/

Picture number 10 🙂

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/african/ashanti/history.html

So does that mean it’s a dirty bit of gold and worth a pile of money or a tourist rip off copy? Hope for OPs sake it’s gold!