Curious Old Carved and Painted Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and Hands - or Cacti! Odd Fellows all fairly minor

all fairly minor

and sits nicely perched on a shelf

Scraps of Horace the Heathen Poet

but the back side of this reveals definitively that is was a collaboration between 5th grader Carl Urban and Bob Urban (his father one might guess)

and scared out of his mind

Curious Old Carved and Painted Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and Hands - or Cacti! Odd Fellows all fairly minorThis one I found in Pennsylvania and find super curious. The painting on the front has a Southwestern flavor, and then on both sides are what look striped sleeved arms ending in hands with pink painted fingernails.. but which one also could perhaps instead take for flowering cacti! And then on the back, two stylized bird with pin pricked outlines that feel very Pennsylvania, making this feel like quite a hybrid thing. 1940s I would think, though