Phrenology 8" Head Bust Bookends OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW

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and an intricately veined marble top

and then assembled carefully by an expert crafter

Lead black Americana boy swinging

Phrenology 8" Head Bust Bookends OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWWPhrenology 8" Head Bust A Phrenology head or bust is a table top representation of a human head showing attributes supposedly associated with various areas of the brain according to phrenology, a pseudoscience. Introduced by Austrian physician Franz Joseph Gall in the 1790s, phrenology was a system by which it was thought character traits could by determined through study of bumps on a patient's head. A 19th century revival of interest in phrenology