Amazing Carved Wooden Pocket Knife Whimsy objects for the home I believe this load-bearing character

I believe this load-bearing character is based on Tevye

On July 19

which function like handles on their backs

of course)

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

Amazing Carved Wooden Pocket Knife Whimsy objects for the home I believe this load-bearing characterIn 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