Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) bunch of antique marbles I'd like to think many

I'd like to think many of them--Mackinaw bridge

lid comes off easily and closes tight

I particularly like them opened all the way out and around again so that the knees knock and toes face

And I have not been able to find another like him out there anywhere

Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) bunch of antique marbles I'd like to think manyI watched this one recently come and go in at auction as part of the late dealer collector Matt King's estate, one in a lot of several objects. (With most everything fetching prices way beyond me, I gave up.). But then this little whimsy showed up elsewhere (I guess the buyer bought the lot for something else in it) so I grabbed it. How that marble got inside is a bit less of a mystery than I thought (one short end shows a diagonal cut, so the wood