SOLD Antique Handmade Folk Art Knife with Carved Boot Handle vintage Peruvian or the sky

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which look to have been salvaged from a library's card catalogue

many sided die

Carved of wood and painted the perfect orange with white nd black spots

I splurged on this one

SOLD Antique Handmade Folk Art Knife with Carved Boot Handle vintage Peruvian or the skyQuite a patina on this very old one. I love the gestural shape of the flat blade, with notch that maybe identifies it as a paring knife (?), but of course it's especially about the carved boot of a handle for me, much much handled and blackened from use (and maybe it got a bit too close to the fire once or twice, too.) Seems maybe earlier than later 19th c. American to me, including based on the shape of that boot, though I am no knife expert, and