Carved and Intensively Decorated Vintage Wooden Snake Piatnik with beautifully hand-written numbers

with beautifully hand-written numbers

both render mountainous Brazilian landscapes in a manner that feels extremely confident and entirely resolved--these really have gravitas

Hardbound with a terrific mustard yellow fabric cover and printed and distributed by Doubleday & Co

and marked sterling on the reverse

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

Carved and Intensively Decorated Vintage Wooden Snake Piatnik with beautifully hand-written numbersThe 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