One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand pretty small vase Machine / Manikin

Machine / Manikin

5" x 3 1/2" x 2" and in good antique condition

) The book itself appears to be quite a scarce one too--an 1831 copy of John Rose's The United States Arithmetician or the Science of Arithmetic Simplied

executed largely in dark blue colored pencil

48” x 29 1/2”

One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand pretty small vase Machine / ManikinAnother 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