ON HOLD Wonderful Late 19th C. Shenandoah Valley Folk Art Birdcage stony weed vase which makes for good for

which makes for good for stacking

often viewed as as a symbol of excessive pride and vanit  being rendered in such an honest and unfussy sort of way

This hip flask is very old

about 150-170 years ago Kuna women of Panama began making Molas using the reverse appliqué technique

I have done some searching and the only Merkesell I have found is an Emily Merkesell of   Cass

ON HOLD Wonderful Late 19th C. Shenandoah Valley Folk Art Birdcage stony weed vase which makes for good forThis birdcage is my favorite find of the week, to my eye really a wonderful thing, which I know from the seller came out of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, c. 1880s 1900. The hand of the maker is viscerally palpable everywhere, and especially in the hand carved, purely decorative pieces around the top, four arches each, and four more arches over the front door, which slides smoothly up to let a bird in or out. The entire structure hooks to the base