Boy Scout Carved Woodblock wood toy elephant and unicorn marching around

elephant and unicorn marching around the perimeter

and the curves of the double banded rim that tops its neck

They are in excellent condition

at its lowest point it measures 1 inch high

Boy Scout Carved Woodblock wood toy elephant and unicorn marching aroundI imagine this sweet woodblock was carved by a member of a boy scout troop in the 1940s or so, to be used to print some sort of awards of merit or the like. The backside reveals that it was likely made by a Leonard Aturill Story (whose father, he notes is, James Story, and a Tred Spivey is listed as well). I love it just as an object (with a handy hole at the top for hanging), but would be tempted to ink it and put it back in use to print a series of