No, it's not mine

[mark yundt]

This is a piece from the late 19th early 20th century I recently restored for a client.It's purpose is to hold a pocket watch.Many of the leaves and delicate pieces were missing.I cut apart several Mahogany blocks to find the right grain patterns and texture.I love Acanthus leaves and thought this was a GREAT example of their use in an unusual way.There are also some neat roses and small oak leaves near the top of the circle,,see 'em,,bout 5/16 inch long.I think a set of those small chisels you guys have been discussing on recent posts would have been helpful,but I didn't know what they were ,let alone existed till you talked about them,,,DUH,,but I made it through with my full size Swiss,,I've always had to learn the hard way.The whole piece is 14" tall and the base is 10" wide. I just thought it was an amazing bit of carving in an insane scale and level of detail,,,maybe someday.

[Juhani]

Now that is absolutely beautiful!

[Thor]

Thanks for showing it to us.
Great piece! Do you have any idea where it originated from?
Thor

[Nancy-G]

Incredible!! I mean not owning tiny tools - not the carving.
I'm teasing, Mark -- you know that, huh?
You know I'm in awe of your work.

[mark yundt]

We're not really sure,,client thinks maybe England possibly.Wherever it came from once it ended up in my shop I was dumbfounded ('course that's not hard to do),and I just stared at it for 20 min.mumbling to myself as the owner asked" do you think you can fix it?"
Of course I know your're teasing,,the line from the movie I think suits me,,"I may be stupid, but I aint ignorant" LOL.But I guess maybe I am considering I don't have any of those tiny tools,I had to google it to find out just what are these guys talking about.Too embarrased to ask,carvin all these years with just biggies ,,go figure.I think I'll just order all the sets ,, might come in handy some day 'ya think?

[squbrigg]

That is a breathtaking piece of work, no matter who carved it or when. I'd love to attempt something like that for my pocket watch, but I'm crazy enough as it is. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Bob

[Just Carving]

Indeed, that is a beautiful carving! I envy that you had the chance to see such an intricate work up close never mind repair it. Congrats!

That watch hutch does look familiar to me. I have seen it or something similar to it in my travels either in one of the many books or magazines I've looked at in my study of carvings incorporating the acanthus, or I've seen it on the Internet. It did have a gold watch when I saw it.

I didn't think much of it at the time other than the "clock" was too small for such a grand carving! DUH--UHHHH!

[mark yundt]

Bob,I don't know where he picked it up,I know he bought alot a Christies and Sothebys,,sold alot there too.HE ( according to other collectors) has one of the top early American collections in the country,, that's why this piece was out of the ordinary for him and he basically "flipped" it. He had at one time over 200 watch hutches, I built a few and actually carved him a pocket watch for display, with a polished plexi crystal, "engraved" railroad scene on the back to insert into one of the hutches.This guys something.