Details
A boxwood nutcracker
of lever action type, modelled as the figure of a man, with articulated jaw, incised with the date 1750, French -- 6in. (15.3cm) long
Provenance
Formerly Owen Evan-Thomas Collection.
Literature
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Treen, Stobart Davies, 1973. Page 126, plate 49, fig E.

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