Vintage Painted Folk Art Carving of Colonial Era Figure stylish bar tool " with a table in

" with a table in the foreground topped with what appears to be flowers in a vase and a fish on a platter (

but it is the sides that really make this basket

I found it at an estate sale of a man who served in Japan during WWII and brought a lot back with him

The Encampment Tent is a common IOOF symbol and also a level of degrees

The far end of the sign (the end with the white

Vintage Painted Folk Art Carving of Colonial Era Figure stylish bar tool " with a table inI believe the hat and outfit on this carved and painted fellow is Colonial era American, and perhaps he is meant to be a Revolutionary soldier. With hands in his pockets and rather relaxed sort of disposition though, he looks to me poised perhaps for other things. I especially love his large, sort of lumpy nose and partially open red painted mouth, and also the sideward cast of his brown eyes, as if keeping an eye on something, or someone, coming