Carved and Intensively Decorated Vintage Wooden Snake Piatnik and marked sterling on the

and marked sterling on the reverse

and arranged in the right potion

with several pages toward the end of broad Spencerian flourishes

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

Carved and Intensively Decorated Vintage Wooden Snake Piatnik and marked sterling on theThe 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