Another Sweet Old Carved Whimsy, Three Balls in Three Cages gray and red 44 printed pages with blank

44 printed pages with blank backs

with plenty of wear to the paint--but it's sturdy as they come

Seems like someone should be picking a banjo on that front porch

but have been lucky to find a couple of old beaded hide Sioux balls over the years

which is minor and took me a long time to notice

Another Sweet Old Carved Whimsy, Three Balls in Three Cages gray and red 44 printed pages with blankThis is one of three carved whimsies today, and one of two of them found in Maine. What makes this one unusual is the two platforms carved into the larger "cage," giving each ball its own sort of room. (A place for everything and everything in its place and this one keeps calling to mind 'peas in a pod,' too.) Nice too how each side of those platforms, and top and bottom of the whimsy too, were carved in, making concave curves. Sweet, and one