Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) antique handmade shaker brush some light scrapes to the

some light scrapes to the mirror around the edges but very usable and structurally very sound

singular thing that certainly no one really needs

and think one can never have too many

My photos of this are not great (not scanned

I've seen a few other West German wooden figures from the same era

Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) antique handmade shaker brush some light scrapes to theIt 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