SOLD Antique Handmade Folk Art Knife with Carved Boot Handle vintage Peruvian Carved of wood and painted

Carved of wood and painted the perfect orange with white nd black spots

all embody variations on a theme

but it doesn't seem to be actively chipping and is structurally in great shape

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SOLD Antique Handmade Folk Art Knife with Carved Boot Handle vintage Peruvian Carved of wood and paintedQuite a patina on this very old one. I love the gestural shape of the flat blade, with notch that maybe identifies it as a paring knife (?), but of course it's especially about the carved boot of a handle for me, much much handled and blackened from use (and maybe it got a bit too close to the fire once or twice, too.) Seems maybe earlier than later 19th c. American to me, including based on the shape of that boot, though I am no knife expert, and