Curious Old Long Necked Golden Bird on Cork Base brass key snake-like circular and square coils

snake-like circular and square coils interrupting the horizontal ones

and central (pow

I keep scooping up these antique stencil wheels whenever I come across them  as I think they're just fantastic things

Brings out the beauty in anything you put near it too

and because I really like the form of this one

Curious Old Long Necked Golden Bird on Cork Base brass key snake-like circular and square coilsI purchased this bird from a dealer based in Iowa City who always has lovely and unusual things, and I think it is very much both of those. I am not completely certain whether made of wood or papier mache it looks as though the head, made as a separate piece, shows wood, visible around the eyes, but I think the body is papier mache, likely formed over a wire armature. Whatever the case, with a wonderful sort of mystery and otherworldliness about it I