Early 20th C. Odd Fellows Carved Hourglass in Gold and Silver Paint kenyan painting on panel though again a bit hard

though again a bit hard to tell at which stage in the life of the image

and the only I've seen like it

many laborers who worked at the Watervliet plant  in the 60s and 70s have been diagnosed with lung cancer and mesothelioma

and could either be used as the head of a spear or threaded with a rope

the glaze is lush

Early 20th C. Odd Fellows Carved Hourglass in Gold and Silver Paint kenyan painting on panel though again a bit hardWhat better object, and symbol, and reminder (!) than an hourglass? This is an earlyish 20th century fraternal one, probably Odd Fellows, found in Upstate New York, carved of wood and clad in its original silver and gold paint, nicely mellowed now. There are earlier, much more finely carved (and very precious) examples of these out there, but I like the simplicity and sort of matter of factness of this one as if wanting to be very direct in