Hand-painted Puffin Letter Opener, Presumed Grenfell Mission stereograph cards plants (including a fabulous cactus

plants (including a fabulous cactus

The wood on the knife handle shows some age

with the incised decoration and applied beaded frieze near the base typical of the lacquerwork of the Shan people (also known as the Dai or Tai Yai)

Table measures 10 1/8" l x 7 3/8" d x 4 3/8" t

Hand-painted Puffin Letter Opener, Presumed Grenfell Mission stereograph cards plants (including a fabulous cactusI've had a couple of old Grenfell Mission (Labrador) wooden letter openers hand painted with figures in parka driving dogs sleds, and have seen a few other varieties as well, and this puffin is so similar in manner I am nearly certain it is Grenfell Mission as well. What a charmer of a puffin, and what a charmer of a letter opener, to keep on one's desk, or perhaps to stick like a post into a bowl full of pretty rocks and pebbles. C. 1920s 30s I