Gorgeous Old Paper Covered Wooden Barn with Lift Off Roof duck on post like that used for clipboards

like that used for clipboards

I love the position of her head

which I believe would have been used for teaching/learning how to read time on a clock

A nice companion to either or both of the folk art still banks I'm listing today

Gorgeous Old Paper Covered Wooden Barn with Lift Off Roof duck on post like that used for clipboardsWith a google image search, I found an old farm set with similar paper to that covering this barn, which described it as having come from a "Hobbies Model Farm Kit", but I've found no other reference for it. To my eye the paper is so gorgeous l I think of this as the wallpaper box of tabletop architecture! The brick patterned paper looks as if woodblock printed, and the green of the roof as if grain painted, though I presume they're actually both