Earlyish 20th C. Hand-carved Folk Art Snake in a Book Shaped Box deer crossing fence My favorite drawings are the

My favorite drawings are the old later on in the bunch where his hand loosens up and he seems to find great joy drawing flowers and trees and clothes hanging on a clothesline

and perhaps even better with the other two

Plus that best blue ground and a built-in knocker

10 3/4" t x 7 3/4" widest

long-nosed denizens of New York’s Upper West Side

Earlyish 20th C. Hand-carved Folk Art Snake in a Book Shaped Box deer crossing fence My favorite drawings are theThis folk art snake in a box, American, earlyish 20th c. I believe, is larger and more substantial than most I have seen carved I believe to pass for a book on the shelf and quite a satisfying one to release by sliding the lid! (And the wear to the paint on the lid where the snake hits it as it completes its emergence tells us it has been opened many times!) Great paint on the snake, with orange spots against black and red inside the mouth, plus