Huge Old Crown of Thorns Whimsy Garland in Red, White, Blue and Gold, (in Two Parts) Richard Rohac cat corkscrew executed in colored inks with

executed in colored inks with a finely nibbed ink pen

I didn't know it when I found them

perhaps boar’s hair on the other

with magnified views of dog tick and little black tick

Huge Old Crown of Thorns Whimsy Garland in Red, White, Blue and Gold, (in Two Parts) Richard Rohac cat corkscrew executed in colored inks withI recently learned that some wooden wreaths constructed of interlocking carved wooden bits were Scandanavian in origin, used for the preservation of yeast in beer and mead making. This is not one of those, but I have to imagine the former informed the construction of later "crown of thorn" type frames and whimsies or garlands like this one, which I might guess was fraternal (Masonic or Odd Fellows?) in origin, earlier 20th century. Definitely it was