SOLD Wonderful 19th C. American Folk Art Painted Iron Wall Six Hook Hanging Rack hand-blown bottle or perhaps a teacher given

or perhaps a teacher given the manual dexterity required

but none I like as much as this one

I assume it was a company giveaway at some point

it doesn't seem deep enough to have been a handle or pull

It’s a large (long

SOLD Wonderful 19th C. American Folk Art Painted Iron Wall Six Hook Hanging Rack hand-blown bottle or perhaps a teacher givenAmong my very favorites of the week, and ever what a marvelous combination of functional form and exuberant expression. And it is old. I presume the zigzag snaking of the iron wire arching between the vertical and horizontal parts of the hanger was meant to help lend stability and balance against the wall (increasing surface area a bit), but what a joyful way to do it (and it reads almost as if two heads facing each other, noses touching, too.) Then