Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) painting on wooden paddle I really love an old

I really love an old hand-cut stencil

4 1/4" x 2 1/2" and in very good condition

dates it 1832–1857

And of course carved books of all shapes and sizes and colors are always the thing

Hammett sold the company to a group of Massachusetts investors

Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) painting on wooden paddle I really love an oldI watched this one recently come and go in at auction as part of the late dealer collector Matt King's estate, one in a lot of several objects. (With most everything fetching prices way beyond me, I gave up.). But then this little whimsy showed up elsewhere (I guess the buyer bought the lot for something else in it) so I grabbed it. How that marble got inside is a bit less of a mystery than I thought (one short end shows a diagonal cut, so the wood