Sweet Old Folk Art Hanging Mailbox with Three Leaf Clover Window phials including the ace through ten

including the ace through ten of hearts

but the spoon component is gone

Just a lovely smallish painting to have around

The result is a very monkey-like monkey with about as empathetic face as I can image

made with real slate that retains a sense of many many years of school lessons performed across its surface--and I believe this is an especially old one (19th c I think)

Sweet Old Folk Art Hanging Mailbox with Three Leaf Clover Window phials including the ace through tenI had this one in my hands for a few minutes several years ago before selling it; happily the buyer, who has changed his collecting focus since, offered it back to me and I must say when I unpacked it I fell in love with it again and found it even better than I remembered! Honest construction, clean lines, good age, quite useful, but what really makes it for me is the clover club shaped cutout, backed with glass which makes it feel a bit like a bee