Fabulous Green Painted Hybrid Creature (Part Boar Part Dinosaur?!) hand-forged blade but there is some dryness

but there is some dryness and light cracking to the woods in places

Apologies for the crummy photos

which becomes a different thing from every view

Good vintage condition but I'd guess he was carved some time ago--there is a bit of aging and darkening to wood around the edges and in a few other spots

Planter or whatever 1 13/16" x 1 15/16" x 15/16"

Fabulous Green Painted Hybrid Creature (Part Boar Part Dinosaur?!) hand-forged blade but there is some drynessI really love this thing, including especially, really! for the fact that I'm not quite sure what it is meant to be, looking somewhat like a boar, but with a very dinosaur esque tail, and also making me think of a rhinoceros though of course its forest green ness makes it really none of the above! I like to imagine its carver made it for a child or grandchild, perhaps along with a whole menagerie of other creatures, which, if so, I would sure love to