Boy Scout Carved Woodblock wood toy The dowel at the top

The dowel at the top measures 24" x 1

rendered in wonderfully bright colors and patterns and

They are in excellent condition

and the curves of the double banded rim that tops its neck

He'd be excellent stuck to the car dashboard as a good luck talisman

Boy Scout Carved Woodblock wood toy The dowel at the topI imagine this sweet woodblock was carved by a member of a boy scout troop in the 1940s or so, to be used to print some sort of awards of merit or the like. The backside reveals that it was likely made by a Leonard Aturill Story (whose father, he notes is, James Story, and a Tred Spivey is listed as well). I love it just as an object (with a handy hole at the top for hanging), but would be tempted to ink it and put it back in use to print a series of