One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand pretty small vase paint loss and minor rust

paint loss and minor rust here and there

Just a really charming thing (and a wonderful

which emerged as a syle of expressionist architecture and extended to the decorative arts

executed largely in dark blue colored pencil

Machine / Manikin

One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand pretty small vase paint loss and minor rustAnother week, another whimsy, not because good old ones are easy to find, but because you always grab them fast when I do, and so I look hard for them. Some long and tall whimsies (and some chains, too) were carved from broom handles, as I'm pretty certain was the case here (this one precisely 24 inches in length ) which I really like the idea of, very much a make do sort of carving, the utilitarian mundane transformed, and of course a real whittler