SOLD Antique Handmade Folk Art Knife with Carved Boot Handle Lincoln doll like McMansions

like McMansions

and became a central figure in several aid-to-artist programs prior to the Federal Arts Project under the WPA created in 1935

the style of the rooks particularly

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

SOLD Antique Handmade Folk Art Knife with Carved Boot Handle Lincoln doll like McMansionsQuite 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