Hickory mallet used by Leonard Wells Volk in making his busts of Lincoln and Douglas.

Accompanying handwritten note by the sculptor's son, Jessie Volk: Hickory mallet used by my father 16 years in New York and Massachusetts. Given me by him in 1847. Since which time I have used it. Mallet used by Leonard Wells Volk in making the bust of Abraham Lincoln in Chicago, 1860.