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Originally Posted by thinreadline
it does look like one of those Black Forest lightwood carvings so is it possible that it depicts a German fairy tale or legend ?
Here is a possibility ...
The Rose-Elf by Hans Christian Anderson (Fairy Tales 1839)...
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read it HERE:
http://hca.gilead.org.il/elf_rose.html
short version of the ending:
the evil brother gets it in the end, stabbed by the elves of the roses poisoned spears.
HCA was a rather gruesome story teller, hard to think of him as writing for children.