Here we have an original unique hand carved piece of folk art in the form of a letter opener 36cm long c1910's
Certainly this fulfils the brief to be included as a piece of Folk Art - original, hand made by an none academic, useful, quirky and one off
This piece has been hand carved from one piece of silver birch - you can still see the bark below the face
The face is very familiar it could have come straight from an ancient fable - a long pointed nose points to witchcraft but the acorn finial type hat points more to imaginative woodland creatures.
A truly one of piece that has a use - the heavy patina, smooth to the touch surfaces helps us age this but we are guessing some what at the beginning of the last century - but this was when creatures like this were popular in the imagination of the many
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