Lovely Weighted Treen Pen Holder Virginia Metalcrafters and though it's certainly lost

and though it's certainly lost a few

and also making me think of a rhinoceros--though of course its forest green-ness makes it really none of the above

The pointing hands

(And/or perhaps the wear to the sheet has something to do with the child she looks to be carrying

when harvested correctly

Lovely Weighted Treen Pen Holder Virginia Metalcrafters and though it's certainly lostI don't really know the age or origins of this, but surely it has more than a 100 years on it, and it's quite a lovely thing. It is weighted inside (one can feel the weight turn when you flip it over) so works both as a paper weight and pen holder. The exterior shows a beautiful play of wood grain, with inlay at the centers of the sides; it has a similar feeling to lignum vitae but may be some other exotic (I've just ordered a guide to woods so I can