Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags hand-colored photographs close to the Vermont border

close to the Vermont border

I love the way it looks as it is

and the interior is lined in birch bark as well

which I have not cleaned but it appears it will easily come off

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Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags hand-colored photographs close to the Vermont borderA satisfyingly visceral primitively carved old folk art whimsy, with these two large, fat balls barely contained by the cage. What I especially love is that pierced into the wood at one end are two old tin litho tobacco tags, Spark Plug and Uncle Sam, which date it to right about 1900. (And if there were ever a tobacco tag that seemed just right for a whimsy, spark plug seems it to me!) I also love the that the "bars" of the cage are not perfectly