Early 20th C. Odd Fellows Carved Hourglass in Gold and Silver Paint kenyan painting on panel framed in a gold painted

framed in a gold painted frame wired on the back for hanging

snaking form looks like that of a porcelain pipe or similar--which rather amazingly he seems to suspend in air entirely by his little mouth

state by state (blue states and red states and green and yellow ones too

these are made of paper and bamboo

Early 20th C. Odd Fellows Carved Hourglass in Gold and Silver Paint kenyan painting on panel framed in a gold paintedWhat better object, and symbol, and reminder (!) than an hourglass? This is an earlyish 20th century fraternal one, probably Odd Fellows, found in Upstate New York, carved of wood and clad in its original silver and gold paint, nicely mellowed now. There are earlier, much more finely carved (and very precious) examples of these out there, but I like the simplicity and sort of matter of factness of this one as if wanting to be very direct in