Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels clever drawings giving "my girl" a certain

giving "my girl" a certain elusiveness

just a couple of other examples of his work—but what a lovely little quail I think this is

made of pine and worn in all the right spots

Isobel Field

repeated four times around the perimeter of the basket

Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels clever drawings giving "my girl" a certainI found this one at Brimfield in the booth of a delightful seller who always has charming things; it was filled end to end with a bunch of old children's books, but happily she was willing to relocate those into a big pile and let me steal the shelf away, as I'm pretty smitten with these squirrels! Made with lots of love I'd bet by a parent or grandparent as a gift for a young child in the 1940s or 50s, with mellow gold paint on the exterior of the