Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome antique photograph except that there is nothing

except that there is nothing engraved on the flat end

which show what I believe is called "crawling shino"--an effect caused by the glaze shrinking during drying and then separating into clumps

or the identity of the head on top

Aside from the loss of some toes in very good condition

Sometimes her entry is simply "Nothing to Write"--which she comes to abbreviate as "NTW" as it occurs fairly often--but other times she writes of the weather

Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome antique photograph except that there is nothingQuite a thing, found in mid coast Maine last weekend, and which I have very much enjoyed carrying around since! Taller than a walking stick, and with a dramatic crook, I would call this a staff and have to think it had a ceremonial function surely wielded by an Odd Fellows Grand Master as an object of power, and seems quite an effective one for keeping the flock in line! With a beautifully carved face, black (finely eye lashed) eyes, long black beard