Unusual Hand-painted Old Wooden Pop-Out Wall Holder with Figure, Bridge, Mountains tin platform created not so much to

created not so much to be artful as to serve a function

smallest 5 3/4" x 3 3/8"

I believe cedar

Probably more of a beautiful thing than a super useful tool these days

while the dowels are unpainted

Unusual Hand-painted Old Wooden Pop-Out Wall Holder with Figure, Bridge, Mountains tin platform created not so much toI've never seen another little wall shelf holder like this one, which I find a pretty ingenious as well as evocative thing, perhaps meant to hold letters and it does look as if our rather lonely looking figure could use the lift of a handwritten letter from a friend! I really love how when popped out the space in between feels as if a gap between two places, as if the figure were far away from mountainous landscape in the distance, with the white