Gorgeous Antique 16+ Inch Sculpturally Carved/Turned Posts handbuilt all documented here

all documented here

Signed Tooms at lower right

There is one area where the surface of the wood is cracking a bit

as if revealing this child's inner light (or its being consumed from within by a pear-shaped ectoplasmic blob

but think the phone

Gorgeous Antique 16+ Inch Sculpturally Carved/Turned Posts handbuilt all documented hereSo 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