Carved Folk Art Chair with Picture Frame Back old wooden bird I love an old folk

I love an old folk art ice fishing decoy and even better a decidedly make do one--and this one especially for distilling down to its essence what an ice fishing decoy wants to be

These are heavy

two images of beauties

This is one of a pair of paintings I found together yesterday in Maine

Framed: 8 1/8 x 10 5/8

Carved Folk Art Chair with Picture Frame Back old wooden bird I love an old folkIt seems to me this folk art tabletop chair may have been made specifically to house this particular photograph (real photo postcard), as the dimensions of the card is longer and more narrow than your typical rppc. And a photo of a chair set within a chair seems quite right, too! Clearly it has lived here for quite a long time, as removing it reveals a much brighter tone of stain. No nails here, rather the chair was pieced together of interlocking