Amazing Carved Wooden Pocket Knife Whimsy objects for the home a few slices of "betal

a few slices of "betal nut" are wrapped in betel leaf

which function like handles on their backs

The American Crayon Company (Kopy Kat)

Moakley's work is included in museum collections including that of American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)

Amazing Carved Wooden Pocket Knife Whimsy objects for the home a few slices of "betalIn 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