Victor Gordon's Hand-carved Wooden Jackstraws in Double Sided Slide Top Box painting of toys were lost at sea

were lost at sea

it feels lot like a Carl Auböck piece--and he did a number of letter openers

and I'd be included to hang it on the wall from a couple of pins to the top corners

My guess would be that it was made by a student at the school

yet with a great elegance and delicacy of surface treatment

Victor Gordon's Hand-carved Wooden Jackstraws in Double Sided Slide Top Box painting of toys were lost at seaA fabulous set of old wooden jackstraws, made by a Victor Gordon, who proudly noted so on the slide type box, which I'd guess he made as well, underlining "Handmade" for emphasis. Almost all of the pieces shaped like arrows and paddles and bows and spades have a number value written on one side, which would be the number of points one gets for successfully extracting them from the pile. One paddle shaped piece has a bent nail attached to served as the