Amazing Carved Wooden Pocket Knife Whimsy unusual basket and 4 1/4" diameter and

and 4 1/4" diameter and is in excellent condition

The leather hinge connecting the lid to base on the back side is mostly split but one wouldn't know it when closed

The patina on this piece

including pieces made with real scarabs

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Amazing Carved Wooden Pocket Knife Whimsy unusual basket and 4 1/4" diameter andIn 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