Tiny Carved Wooden Skull Paper Knife mid-century Mexican but certainly he makes a

but certainly he makes a fun little door knocker

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and left his scholarship at the academy to become a professional magician

The handle at the middle of the lid probably once had a tassel attached

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Tiny Carved Wooden Skull Paper Knife mid-century Mexican but certainly he makes aI find this rather a haunting little carving, I assume meant to serve as a letter opener, and certainly with well more than a hundred years on it I have to think it has opened some letters bearing pretty sad news. The skull itself is tiny, but reads very clearly as a skull, which I've shot with some magnification to get a better sense of its details, which make it look a bit more crude than with viewed by the eye alone. Pretty amazing. 4" long; skull