Minuscule yet functional gold skeleton expected to sell for $150-250,000 at Sotheby’s
By Alexis Coe from The Awl: In 1896, Israel Rouchomovsky, in Odessa, completed a 3-1/2 inch gold skeleton with 167 parts. It had taken five long years to create a fully articulated rendering, and he took particular delight in the lower jaw, which opened and shut. In Rouchomovsky’s memoirs, he wrote that he was truly satisfied […]