Amazing Carved Walnut Shell Cat Family with Walnut Dish snowy owl This one is especially nice

This one is especially nice as the top screws on and off tightly

It is mounted to a cardboard backing that measures 5"x5"

just a few light scratches to the surface that I don't think detract at all

After Wilhelm Kagel Jr’s death the studio closed 1987

with just one very tiny nick in the  the wood on the highest-relief tip of the anchor on the right side

Amazing Carved Walnut Shell Cat Family with Walnut Dish snowy owl This one is especially niceOh my! I love little carved peach pit baskets, but they certainly pale in comparison to this fantastic tiny family of creatures carved from walnut shells! I'd guess they are meant to be cats or tigers (with the natural grain of the shells giving them black stripes), with these terrific pointed ears, red painted mouths, and long arching tails, which function like handles on their backs! Plus a hollowed out half walnut shell to pile them into, with an