Marvelous Antique Rasp Decorated Wrought Iron Folk Art Snake antique bird painting which would be used to

which would be used to tag deliveries of freshly caught fish to the businesses that would sell them--in this case a variety of fishmongers in seaport districts of Manhattan and Boston

Kachinas dolls were traditionally made by Pueblo men

dinging as one tosses them around

Great hand-painted details against the gray paint

of this same H

Marvelous Antique Rasp Decorated Wrought Iron Folk Art Snake antique bird painting which would be used toI've had a couple of old wrought iron folk art snakes, made as iron worker's whimsies I believe, but this is I think the very best I've ever seen, and it seems to me likely the oldest too. Photos do no justice, but the details come the closest, showing the very very extensive and very intensive rasping of the iron used to give it scales; fantastic. And the underside shows how the iron was curled under to give volume to the body, making it almost like