One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand pretty small vase 8 3/4 x 12 1/16

8 3/4 x 12 1/16 photo

Knight Company in Akron

Wood is dense and heavy

with miniature portraits at her neck and hanging from her ear

One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand pretty small vase 8 3/4 x 12 1/16Another week, another whimsy, not because good old ones are easy to find, but because you always grab them fast when I do, and so I look hard for them. Some long and tall whimsies (and some chains, too) were carved from broom handles, as I'm pretty certain was the case here (this one precisely 24 inches in length ) which I really like the idea of, very much a make do sort of carving, the utilitarian mundane transformed, and of course a real whittler