Charming Pottery Mouse and Mole - A Pair wide lip planter but as I photographed them

but as I photographed them realized they really are a couple (he's taller

and I think that face and eyebrows--or uni-brow

just inside the edge of the tile

Massachusetts in 1878

Case measures 3 3/8" in diameter x 7/8" deep

Charming Pottery Mouse and Mole - A Pair wide lip planter but as I photographed themI'm selling these two as a pair, as they seem a perfect couple to me, the mole signed R. B and then another B, while the mouse not clearly signed by surely by the same maker, I would guess a pretty young one, at least whenever they crafted these! Not too many pottery moles out there I don't think (I do believe this is meant to be mole!?), though I think this one makes a strong argument for more! I might keep these on the desk to bring some levity to