Fabulous Green Painted Hybrid Creature (Part Boar Part Dinosaur?!) hand-forged blade 3 7/8" x 3 7/8"

3 7/8" x 3 7/8" x 7/8" and in very good condition

in penciled capital letters: Alice Faye

down to the the tassels and loops hanging from the shades in the bay windows of the house

Framing would stabilize it and should make that split more or less disappear

Fabulous Green Painted Hybrid Creature (Part Boar Part Dinosaur?!) hand-forged blade 3 7/8" x 3 7/8"I really love this thing, including especially, really! for the fact that I'm not quite sure what it is meant to be, looking somewhat like a boar, but with a very dinosaur esque tail, and also making me think of a rhinoceros though of course its forest green ness makes it really none of the above! I like to imagine its carver made it for a child or grandchild, perhaps along with a whole menagerie of other creatures, which, if so, I would sure love to