Carved and Intensively Decorated Vintage Wooden Snake Piatnik on brown paper bag or

on brown paper bag or craft paper--in a very dirty old frame where it was taped to piece of cardboard and starting to deteriorate

Hunkins from the Adirondacks

and marked sterling on the reverse

with several pages toward the end of broad Spencerian flourishes

Carved and Intensively Decorated Vintage Wooden Snake Piatnik on brown paper bag orThe shape of this snake remind me a bit of that of a boomerang, and the inked black and gold decoration all over feels a bit Aboriginal Australian too, but I don't know for sure where I came from just that I think its a pretty great snake, just the right size to keep on one's desk, or put on someone else's as a surprise! Nicely carved head with open mouth and white teeth inside. 10 1 2" long measured as a straight line from head to tail; 4 1 4" across