Chicks Eating Strawberries, Antique Folk Art Oil on Board, Original Frame vintage beach toys PA--one of several carved folk

PA--one of several carved folk art  books on this trip

which I'd probably hang on the wall from the hole at the end

There are five carved and interlocking pieces here--the two faces

one sees wooden folk animals of this sort on green bases around from time to time but with variation among them so I think perhaps they were made according to plans

Chicks Eating Strawberries, Antique Folk Art Oil on Board, Original Frame vintage beach toys PA--one of several carved folkSometimes a sweet and cheering old folk painting is just what's in order, and this one is very much that, making me very happy when I found it in inland southern Maine this week. Who can argue with fluffy yellow chicks and lushly ripe red strawberries? I love the big green cabbage leaf serving as a basket for the berries, too and the red dripping from the greedy little beaks of these two! Great carved wooden frame too in mellow gold paint, I believe