Marvelous Double Sided Antique PA Folk Art Box with Inlaid Horses carved. boot I would guess these date

I would guess these date to the 60s or early 70s

Louis Art Museum

Among my very favorite recent finds

with some holes in the stocking testifying to some moths or something nibbling away at it at some point--unless it was a hole-y stocking to begin with

One of two stone carved books this week

Marvelous Double Sided Antique PA Folk Art Box with Inlaid Horses carved. boot I would guess these dateAmong my very favorite PA finds, and among my favorite finds ever just look at these horses! So specifically and lovingly rendered in inlaid wood, with finely incised lines for their manes I have to think these were two much loved particular horses, and that the box was made, perhaps by a husband for his wife, who loved these horses very much. (They also feel a bit like human surrogates, making a very handsome couple.) I'm not sure if the relatively