Fabulous Green Painted Hybrid Creature (Part Boar Part Dinosaur?!) vintage mexican and holding together fine

and holding together fine

and what looks like an old hairline crack to the surface wooden knob

very fine hand-painted decorative details

and the artist behind the wonderful sketches scattered across blank pages and margins within

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Fabulous Green Painted Hybrid Creature (Part Boar Part Dinosaur?!) vintage mexican and holding together fineI really love this thing, including especially, really! for the fact that I'm not quite sure what it is meant to be, looking somewhat like a boar, but with a very dinosaur esque tail, and also making me think of a rhinoceros though of course its forest green ness makes it really none of the above! I like to imagine its carver made it for a child or grandchild, perhaps along with a whole menagerie of other creatures, which, if so, I would sure love to