A BLACK FOREST CARVED WOOD PAPER KNIFE

late 19th or early 20th Century, the handle carved as a section of felled branch, the bark finely combed throughout and peeled back at either end, pierced with three openings from which emerge the heads and forepaws of three pugs, their wrinkled brows and flattened muzzles crisply carved and their eyes inset, the sawn end carved with annual rings and radiating splits. 36cm long

Estimate:$333.69

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