Amazing Carved Wooden Pocket Knife Whimsy unusual basket and believe it would be

and believe it would be referred to as a Moro mask

so that one can pop out an animal and then punch it back in

The patina on this piece

including pieces made with real scarabs

with a very interesting history

Amazing Carved Wooden Pocket Knife Whimsy unusual basket and believe it would beIn all my whimsy hunting, I'd never seen a pocket knife carved entirely of wood, but here one is! With a little googling I turned up one other example (dating to the 1920s 30, more detailed and refined, and selling for $875! ) Of course it seems exactly the right thing for a carver to carve, and the seller of the one I found, Clifford Wallach, who notes he's only seen a couple, nicely writes: "perhaps the single object that points to the whimsy, pride