A private collection of Chinese cricket cages and related items - an unusual mid / late 19th century Chinese paktong cricket tickler case, containing a cricket tickler with rat's whiskers, the case 7.9ins. (20cms.) long. Provenance - purchased from Honeychurch Antiques, Hong Kong, 18th January 1992, who note that the present example is the first paktong cricket tickler case that they had seen (usually bamboo or ivory).