One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand pretty small vase with miniature portraits at her

with miniature portraits at her neck and hanging from her ear

which emerged as a syle of expressionist architecture and extended to the decorative arts

Wood is dense and heavy

) 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

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

One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand pretty small vase with miniature portraits at herAnother 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