SOLD Beautiful, Unusual Antique Treen Powder Flask with Lovingly Carved Decoration ww2 drawing Lewis Haehnlen took over manufacturing

Lewis Haehnlen took over manufacturing there in the 1860s

which I found in Vermont

(And also like a woman who has worn many hats

This is one of six carved and painted birds I found together

While I usually gravitate toward older carvings

SOLD Beautiful, Unusual Antique Treen Powder Flask with Lovingly Carved Decoration ww2 drawing Lewis Haehnlen took over manufacturingI watched this online for a couple of days before purchasing it but kept thinking about it in the interim, and I remain fairly obsessed with it now. A very elegant, graceful form, carved of very beautiful wood that looks like burl and is a rich honey color (detail photos of the wood give a sense), with very lovingly relief carving of a leafy vine along the top ridge, almost evoking a spine, which then branches to encircle the neck, as if wrapping