Another Sharpening Steel Oddity

[Traintime]

Again with the ferrules marked "STERLING" (at both ends) and trimmed to fit the handle curvature. This one apparently surfaced recently in an estate sale but without any mates from a carving set. This alligator or crocodile has black in green seed eyes.

[Traintime]

A reference to a couple of gents carving wood gators for (umbrella) handles in Philadelphia around 1920: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=30437&p=104046&hilit=men+handles+alligators+carved#p104046