SOLD Finely Carved Double Faced Black Forest Hinged Box wooden hair combs It measures 4 1/4" tall

It measures 4 1/4" tall with a diameter of 7" across at top and 3 1/2" at base

I believe it dates to sometime between the late 20s and 1945

as I could not stop myself

but this is quite an unusual one and one of my very favorites

A wintery landscape

SOLD Finely Carved Double Faced Black Forest Hinged Box wooden hair combs It measures 4 1/4" tallThough not always my cup of tea, the skillfulness of Black Forest carving is hard to deny which this snuff box scale carved and hinged box exemplifies and this one is very much indeed my cup of tea! I'm thinking it is a wolf though not far off in visage to wild boars and also bears in the Black Forest manner and inexplicably more finally carved on one side than the other (which I suppose could mean it represents two different creatures, but I'm not