Wonderful Primitive Carved Pine Clock Case with Spires 1978 pottery Handmade and hand-painted papier mache

Handmade and hand-painted papier mache head and hand-sewn costume

The pink-red decoration on this one comes from Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack (there were a whole series of these illustrating different "maxims")

Published by the Central Office of the Epworth League (a  Methodist young adult association formed in Cleveland in 1889) Fifty Social Evenings was written to help the league's department of social work in their efforts "to make league socials bright

one can just feel these things

This seems to be a pretty rare one

Wonderful Primitive Carved Pine Clock Case with Spires 1978 pottery Handmade and hand-painted papier macheThis one hurts my heart I love it so much to my sensibilities, a perfect object exactly as it stands and if there were ever something that felt holy to me, this might be it. The front panel with these wonderfully carved spires is constructed of two pieces of wood, pine I believe, held together it looks to me by just a couple of nails at the top and then a few more nailed in from the underside of the base. One more piece on either side and two pieces