Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags kid leather doll 7 3/4" l x 1

7 3/4" l x 1 3/8" w x 1 1/4" d and in good

in which I know from her collection and library she had a great interest

and perhaps the bird on reverse

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Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags kid leather doll 7 3/4" l x 1A 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