Doan's Back online Pills Tower

This is a regal tower based on the bottom on a vintage milk bottle, moving upward to a small silver-plated plate, to an old salt multi-faceted clear glass shaker, an antique children's block that says O, an antique tin for Doan's Pills (I remember Doan's Back Pills from the 80s--maybe these were the same thing?), a copper pipe fitting, and the bourgeois wooden knob off an American Girl Doll umbrella.
The best part of this thing is at the very bottom. Inside the milk bottle are a handful of pecans that some mice got to under the pecan tree at my grandparents' ranch in West Texas. They online are fascinating! Instead of breaking the pecan shell in one spot and eating the nut from there, they bore little holes into each of the chambers of the pecan from the outside. They look like precision-crafted hardwood ornaments--or Swiss cheese--but I like to call them "dirty rodent trash." Don't worry: I've had this collection for about 20 years, so any germs from the little mice have since died off. While I was adoring them in the bottle, I remembered something else my mom brought back from I think the Czech Republic when she was working for the Peace Corps: a pair of earrings, one of which got crushed, and one of which was still in tact. It was a sphere with circular holes on its surface that revealed another sphere inside it with circular holes on it, which revealed another smaller one, and so on and so on. These took so much effort for a human to create in such minute detail. So much effort for what in the end looked like a slightly more polished version of dirty rodent trash. Oh, we humans try so hard.