Bidspirit auction | Rare Earnest Mooney Warther Signed

Rare Earnest Mooney Warther Signed Meat Cleaver - Length: 10. length: 6 inches. This lot features a two-piece historical collection consisting of a custom-made meat cleaver and an accompanying biographical booklet. The cleaver is constructed with a heavy-duty carbon steel blade featuring a full tang and a distinctive engine-turned or jeweled finish characterized by overlapping circular patterns. The top rear corner of the blade is stamped with the characters M, O, and W arranged around the hanging hole. The handle consists of two contoured wood scales secured by three brass rivets. Accompanying the tool is a softcover, comb-bound booklet titled The Little Boy who found A Knife: The Story of Ernest Warther, Master Carver. The title page identifies the author as Caroline J. Pardee, with a foreword by Henry C. Hagloch and photography by Paul S. Somogy. It was printed by the Dover Daily Reporter in Dover, Ohio, in 1951. The front cover features a wood-grain design with a black silhouette of Ernest Warther carving. The interior of the booklet bears a handwritten signature by Ernest Warther.