Amazing Old Scratch Built Wooden Folk Art House Bank with Checkerboard Roof, Opening Door and Intensively Carved Details coal train Box 2 3/8" x 1

Box 2 3/8" x 1 5/8" x 1/2"

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

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

and as I'm finding examples like this harder and harder to come by and more and more pricey when I do

I think they're quite fabulous things

Amazing Old Scratch Built Wooden Folk Art House Bank with Checkerboard Roof, Opening Door and Intensively Carved Details coal train Box 2 3/8" x 1Collector 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