Significant Objects of various kinds

I've done a short piece for the Significant Objects challenge, for this peculiar little item:



which is now up on ebay, through the 21st. It now makes me feel plaintive to look at it; I at least managed to invent meaning for myself, although that is not really the point of the challenge. *g*


Meanwhile, in OTHER significant objects news, I just had this lovely thing put into my hands:



In His Majesty's Service, the new omnibus edition of Temeraire books 1-3 (His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, ...