Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) letter knife and snatch them up whenever

and snatch them up whenever I do

there is always a face looking at you

Interestingly

what an amazing set they would have made

trained under Academic history painters Fernand Cormon and Jean Paul Laurens and exhibited at the salon of French artists

Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) letter knife and snatch them up wheneverIt was suggested to me when I purchased this that it was a piece of trench art, and I think that it likely, with the canister made from a shell casing and the little chopping man cut from from some scrap. In any case, it's certainly it's own special folk art thing, and I really love this smiling but very focused looking fellow very intent on the task at hand, which looks to me to be splitting a piece of wood. Incised on both sides, and serving as a