Doris Coe's Sep 1906 Hanging Ball in Cage Whimsy model airplane wings with bright and colorfully painted

with bright and colorfully painted equipment and

With golden cut paper heart and hand-colored (watercolored it looks to me) LOVE giving rise to an angel with butterfly wings emerging from the center of a rose

I believe it is a copper round at center

with this wonderfully expressive

Doris Coe's Sep 1906 Hanging Ball in Cage Whimsy model airplane wings with bright and colorfully paintedDoris Coe, Sep 1905 I suppose possibly a gift to a young Doris, but I much prefer to think it was Doris who carved it, and though Doris was sometimes a name given to boys, I'd like to think our Doris was female. A sweet old whimsy, whatever the case, pine I believe, with nice detailing especially to the rounded bottom the "cage". One could string and wear as a pendant now, or hang on the wall from a nail, or just lay it amid the other whimsies in the