Forest Craft Guild Arts & Crafts Letter Holder by Forest Mann, 1910s soviet landscape with a spring that enables

with a spring that enables its beak (red on the inside

He's definitely quite old--I have found one other online like him

They are hand numbered in pencil at top center (this one is 4

these are pretty satisfying things pick up and roll around

There are a few small chips in the exterior bark along the edges

Forest Craft Guild Arts & Crafts Letter Holder by Forest Mann, 1910s soviet landscape with a spring that enablesThis is a very lovely Arts & Crafts letter holder by Forest Mann, who operated Forest Craft Guild in Grand Rapid Michigan, 1905 1918. An elegant form with perfect patina, and quintessentially Arts & Crafts triangle shaped cutouts with slightly rounded corners along the front. Born in 1879, Mann attended the Pratt Institute, NY, where he was a student of Arthur Wesley Dow. After graduating, he taught Arts & Crafts classes in Dayton, Ohio, and founded