Amazing Carved Wooden Pocket Knife Whimsy unusual basket and all the more so

and all the more so as framed by razor-straight bangs peeking out from her bonnet and big bow neatly tied at her chin

Either way positioned

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

The patina on this piece

I can't imagine that it didn't earn them an A++

Amazing Carved Wooden Pocket Knife Whimsy unusual basket and all the more soIn 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