SOLD Antique Handmade Folk Art Knife with Carved Boot Handle Lincoln doll This voluptuous yak would have

This voluptuous yak would have functioned as a handle of sorts

No real matter as they should immediately be taken out of the box and put to use

the style of the rooks particularly

and one roundish loss on the right edge

The painterly white and inky dark blue glazing around the body of the vase has been incised to reveal the black slip underneath

SOLD Antique Handmade Folk Art Knife with Carved Boot Handle Lincoln doll This voluptuous yak would haveQuite a patina on this very old one. I love the gestural shape of the flat blade, with notch that maybe identifies it as a paring knife (?), but of course it's especially about the carved boot of a handle for me, much much handled and blackened from use (and maybe it got a bit too close to the fire once or twice, too.) Seems maybe earlier than later 19th c. American to me, including based on the shape of that boot, though I am no knife expert, and