Curious Old Long Necked Golden Bird on Cork Base brass key not a fussy thing about

not a fussy thing about it but with the hand of its maker very palpable

Brings out the beauty in anything you put near it too

I keep scooping up these antique stencil wheels whenever I come across them  as I think they're just fantastic things

snake-like circular and square coils interrupting the horizontal ones

including for the way that the back sides of the game board are arched

Curious Old Long Necked Golden Bird on Cork Base brass key not a fussy thing aboutI purchased this bird from a dealer based in Iowa City who always has lovely and unusual things, and I think it is very much both of those. I am not completely certain whether made of wood or papier mache it looks as though the head, made as a separate piece, shows wood, visible around the eyes, but I think the body is papier mache, likely formed over a wire armature. Whatever the case, with a wonderful sort of mystery and otherworldliness about it I