These two I found together rummaging deep through a old box of interesting "junk" at Brimfield--just my sorts of things, and together I think they should stay. Towser is a traditional name for a large or scrappy dog, deriving from the verb touse (meaning to pull about or handle roughly)--here one has to think adapted for a female dog with the "ine" underlined, as if there were also a Towser in the family, who had its own collar key attached to a similarly labeled but of paper. And then Leon's trunk key too, an Atkinson & Long key for an "Everlasting lock," with celluloid fob. I find things like this quite evocative, like prompts for novels, or solutions to a mystery!
Towserine note 2 x 1 3/4", key 13/16" l. Trunk key tag 2 1/4" l, key 1 5/8" l.
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