ROLLO, Beatifully Hand-Carved Antique Wooden Stamp woman in cape with the cigarettes fitting the

with the cigarettes fitting the short way

but he certainly looks a lot like a waving (and maybe also hand-greasing) politician to me

19th c I believe

probably 1920s-40s)

Box measures 6 3/4" x 2 3/8" x 1 9/16" t and is in good structural shape

ROLLO, Beatifully Hand-Carved Antique Wooden Stamp woman in cape with the cigarettes fitting theI find this really beautiful as an object and "Rollo." such an excellent work to have been carved someone's last name I presume, with the hand carved wooden stamp surely used to mark possessions, though I 'm not sure whether cloth (feed bags, say) or something else, perhaps many different things. I found it in Upstate NY near Albany, and would guess it had not travelled far. Wonderfully, deeply hand carved letters, and nice long handle, with the stamp