SOLD Antique Handmade Folk Art Knife with Carved Boot Handle Lincoln doll The painterly white and inky

The painterly white and inky dark blue glazing around the body of the vase has been incised to reveal the black slip underneath

4 7/16" d x 3" t

sent  from a "Lizzie" in Cuttyhunk to Frank Slocum of South Westport

was carried by a policeman in the 1920s or so

like McMansions

SOLD Antique Handmade Folk Art Knife with Carved Boot Handle Lincoln doll The painterly white and inkyQuite 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