RCS's January 1931 Adirondack Folk Art Hanging Match Holder Shelf miniature check Really super sweet

Really super sweet

I love the step back of the lower level on this one

and in this case I rather like it as a complement to the twisted bracelet around the wrist

and nice brass center pins

and then bench sitting elders

RCS's January 1931 Adirondack Folk Art Hanging Match Holder Shelf miniature check Really super sweetFound not far from the Adirondacks, photos don't do justice to the presence and charm or heft! of this one, carved by a "RCS" in January of 1931, who signed it proudly on the back, and who one imagines immediately hung on the wall to hold matches for the fire (and maybe the pipe, too) in the middle of a long and dark winter. I love everything about it, especially the wide "Y" shaped twig at center doing the work of making a rail for the shelf between