Gorgeous Antique 16+ Inch Sculpturally Carved/Turned Posts handbuilt antiques and folk art

antiques and folk art

There is a old string around the tied around the stopper which appears to serve no function but I have left as found

and pretty excellent as a tabletop sculpture

MA  school notebook I'm listing--clearly the work of one person--which came from the collection of longtime New England collectors Bev and John Titus

Gorgeous Antique 16+ Inch Sculpturally Carved/Turned Posts handbuilt antiques and folk artSo juicy. These make me think a lot of old carved barber shop poles, and a little of old carved hearse curtains too all of which I regularly drool at! It actually seems as if these could have been barber shop poles originally (there are a few dings showing bits of red paint, and some gold paint at the ends too; and there is one small plugged hole in each, as if they might have been mounted) then repainted dark brown, perhaps for use at the funeral