Early 20th C. Odd Fellows Carved Hourglass in Gold and Silver Paint kenyan painting on panel but the naughty birding cat

but the naughty birding cat is pretty timeless

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

state by state (blue states and red states and green and yellow ones too

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

these are made of paper and bamboo

Early 20th C. Odd Fellows Carved Hourglass in Gold and Silver Paint kenyan painting on panel but the naughty birding catWhat 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