1920s Greenich Village Nude Letter Opener white glazed with the paint

with the paint

Cards measure 2 5/8" x 3 3/8"

I never paid much attention to folk art watermelon--then I found this beautiful slice and realized its all about glorious color

This multi-piece fossilized whalebone and tusk Inuit carving is described as from Nuayat on the underside of its base

perhaps Betsy never did survive to wear them

1920s Greenich Village Nude Letter Opener white glazed with the paintMaybe just a little thing, but I love the thought that this was made in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, as signed on reverse transporting one, at least in one's imagination, to a very different time in the life a once very bohemian place, of which the loosely hand drawn nude on the front feel like an apt and spirited embodiment. I really like this. 10 1 4" l x 1 1 4" w, good condition, great patina.