Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Flower Tree Painting, 1935 carved turtle and I believe it is

and I believe it is strips of some sort of plastic that run along its spine

embodying endless treasures out in the world waiting to be found

There is some wear and cracking to the paint (more visible here in magnified views than with the naked eye) and some rust on the base

I am not certain of the wood --it may be cherry

and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension

Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Flower Tree Painting, 1935 carved turtle and I believe it isI bought a bunch of these together, my favorites of which I am listing individually, then I'll list another handful together, your choice, at a common price. A little digging reveals that "Fireside Studios" the maker of these "practice boards was a division of Fireside Industries, Adrian, Michigan, which sold and promoted all manner of decorative projects targeted to women at home. With these practice boards, one was to complete decorative painting