Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags hand-colored photographs I love the way it

I love the way it looks as it is

Everything about this one was delicately

with perfectly aged paint

looking as if he himself is about to disappear in a cloud of smoke with a wave of his cape

Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags hand-colored photographs I love the way itA satisfyingly visceral primitively carved old folk art whimsy, with these two large, fat balls barely contained by the cage. What I especially love is that pierced into the wood at one end are two old tin litho tobacco tags, Spark Plug and Uncle Sam, which date it to right about 1900. (And if there were ever a tobacco tag that seemed just right for a whimsy, spark plug seems it to me!) I also love the that the "bars" of the cage are not perfectly