Unusual Hand-painted Old Wooden Pop-Out Wall Holder with Figure, Bridge, Mountains tin platform which is screwed into the

which is screwed into the base

I purchased this painting by Lois Gross Smiley (1925-2018) out of the studio of her estate in Wellesley

created not so much to be artful as to serve a function

4 3/8" t x 5 1/2" l x 2 1/4" w

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Unusual Hand-painted Old Wooden Pop-Out Wall Holder with Figure, Bridge, Mountains tin platform which is screwed into theI've never seen another little wall shelf holder like this one, which I find a pretty ingenious as well as evocative thing, perhaps meant to hold letters and it does look as if our rather lonely looking figure could use the lift of a handwritten letter from a friend! I really love how when popped out the space in between feels as if a gap between two places, as if the figure were far away from mountainous landscape in the distance, with the white