Fabulous Old Painted Root Wood Leopard! (With Gnawed At Nose) ornate spoon with a few small pin

with a few small pin holes in the velvet and one stitch on the star that appears to have come loose and then was knotted back into place

I would guess mid-20th century

but there is a pad covering its base that I have not removed

it is just no longer attached to something that would hold it tightly clamped

On the reverse are pencil written notes detailing the chair lift rise and elevation

Fabulous Old Painted Root Wood Leopard! (With Gnawed At Nose) ornate spoon with a few small pinThis! One of two leopards today, which alone mean it was a good week. And quite a singular thing this one, made of a piece of root wood, lending it this wonderfully snaking and twisting body. Something appears to have gnawed a bit at its snout at some point, resulting in some loss and roughness there, and the end of one leg shows a little loss too but what remains is so good and so full of life I don't much care! Terrific old paint, black spots