1939 Hand-painted Chalkware Portrait of Will Rogers by Artist August Mack handmade wooden fish I thought I'd see if

I thought I'd see if I might try to contact some Oregonian historians to see if any interest as well

” I think it’s a vintage tobacco jar

The white irregularities seem for the most part to be indigenous to the stone rather than dings to the surface

but there's definitely a different sort of immediacy to it

1939 Hand-painted Chalkware Portrait of Will Rogers by Artist August Mack handmade wooden fish I thought I'd see ifQuite a thing, to which the chalkware bull i just listed might make just the right companion (!), and which itself, a posthumous portrait of Will Rogers by Indiana artist August Mack, represents the convergence of two quite singular individuals, born the same year. (This piece came from a notable folk outsider art collection, different from where i found the bull!) Rogers (1879 1935) gained acclaim as a trick roper and vaudeville actor, and went on to