SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber ceramic planter as if keeping an eye

as if keeping an eye on something

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) were presented in Josh Lowenfels booth at the 2019 Outsider Art Fair

Horny toads are believed to bring good luck

SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber ceramic planter as if keeping an eyeA bit gruesome perhaps, but I love a homemade mechanical object, and to my mind a homemade mousetrap is compelling in a similar way to a bee box an individualistic and often make do solution to the problem at hand. I'm not 100% sure exactly how this one was set, but depressing the wire handle lowers a wire loop inside the carved out barrel, while releasing it raises that loop, trapping the proverbial mouse inside, and it seems piercing its back with a