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circa 1930s
though perhaps it is a little older than that
He wore a pig tail as many Chinese did then
I love that the blade of the opener feels rather like an extra long tail
and one can still make out the year
Mid 19th c. Cut Paper Birds and Elephants by J. McNally with Scissors in Toes at Barnum's Museum vintage cocktails circa 1930sThis one is subtle (the first photo shows it lit from behind) but I think quite special, significantly for the story of it handwritten in pencil at bottom left, surely noted not long after its making. It notes that the paper cut, of birds and elephants, was done at Barnum's Museum (operated by P. T Barnum and located in Lower Manhattan at the corner of Broadway, Park Row and Ann Street, from 1841 to 1865; it was after the museum burned down that
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