Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome antique photograph with some loose pages

with some loose pages

but it strikes me as just right the way it is

Iasigi it looks to me

with an unused back

except that there is nothing engraved on the flat end

Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome antique photograph with some loose pagesQuite a thing, found in mid coast Maine last weekend, and which I have very much enjoyed carrying around since! Taller than a walking stick, and with a dramatic crook, I would call this a staff and have to think it had a ceremonial function surely wielded by an Odd Fellows Grand Master as an object of power, and seems quite an effective one for keeping the flock in line! With a beautifully carved face, black (finely eye lashed) eyes, long black beard