Amazing Old Scratch Built Wooden Folk Art House Bank with Checkerboard Roof, Opening Door and Intensively Carved Details coal train as there is a very

as there is a very careful mend (plug) in the wood at lower right

with those faces

which shows a sort of white-gray now that's just right and makes them feel all the more classical

Brown paper folder holding his handwritten reports and renderings (a selection but not all documented) measures  11 3/4" x 9"

This one is a hundred times better than photos convey--the ground a somewhat darker

Amazing Old Scratch Built Wooden Folk Art House Bank with Checkerboard Roof, Opening Door and Intensively Carved Details coal train as there is a veryCollector dealer Pat Hatch, well known for her extraordinary black doll collection, has been selling some small things at an antiques shop I heavily frequent in Maine; I scooped up several pieces from her this week, including this little carved cottage in polychrome and a second tin house too. I just couldn't resist this feels about as akin to a gingerbread house as a carved folk art house bank could, and the love and attention to detail invested in