Great Hand-painted Yellow Cutout Wooden Chicken on Orange Base Alice Nanogak print A little research led me

A little research led me to discover that John A Manson Company at 253 Broadway in Manhattan (stamped on these copper mounts) was a hardware store

and now are pretty rare to find--after spending a little time building with this one

Den Helder

I purchased this and a second Dows print from the estate of artist Leon Hovsepian (1911-2018) in Worchester

and the brass looks very much to me like  melted down shell casings

Great Hand-painted Yellow Cutout Wooden Chicken on Orange Base Alice Nanogak print A little research led meThough unsigned, if I had to guess, I might think this great wooden folk art chicken was the work of well known Georgia folk artist RA Miller (1912 2006) the silhouette and use of line is very similar, though perhaps it is a little too refined. At any rate, a pretty terrific chicken rooster? I think, with wonderfully graphic, black painted details and the perfect orange painted base. Super. 8 11 16" tall c 5 7 8" wide x 2 1 4" deep (at base); bird