1939 Hand-painted Chalkware Portrait of Will Rogers by Artist August Mack handmade wooden fish (Maybe I'm crazy

(Maybe I'm crazy

15/16" thick

perhaps once part of a set of fireplace tools

I learned about the existence of Russian prison playing cards from Eric Oglander at tihngs

He's just a little thing

1939 Hand-painted Chalkware Portrait of Will Rogers by Artist August Mack handmade wooden fish (Maybe I'm crazyQuite 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