Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned antique bookmark and especially

and especially

Turning the center knob dials the first number and punching down on the top knob changes the other

which appealed to me for their absurdity in delivering what are rather cumbersome and not especially clever jokes

Sturdy and with no issues

and incised marks to individuate fingers

Stylized Modernist Carved Wood Head, Early-Mid 20th C., SIgned antique bookmark and especiallyI believe this head is a Western, modernist carving done sometime between the late 1920s and early 50s. It actually immediately made me think of the work of Belarusian born French artist Ossip Zadkine (1888 1967) whose work (and museum and studio in Paris) I really love. Not large at six inches tall, but with a substantial and dramatic presence, with fantastically stylized forehead tapering into wonderful almost trunk like nose that feels as if