Sweet Old Folk Art Carved Small Standing Frame with Photo oil on postcard all with arms moving

all with arms moving

best of all those beautifully carved untied laces

with a bit of blue bleed here and there

but the back side of this reveals definitively that is was a collaboration between 5th grader Carl Urban and Bob Urban (his father one might guess)

Here I come a mile or more

Sweet Old Folk Art Carved Small Standing Frame with Photo oil on postcard all with arms movingA very sweet old carved folk art standing frame, the form of which makes it look (to me at least) as if the photo itself is being held lovingly in a hand or cupped between two hands, with thumbs to the sides and the tips of three fingers above it. Framing the old snapshot of young child seated on a bench in front of a rock formation are three wooden pieces, carved to look like rope. No fourth piece at the bottom, likely lost, but as is one could