Expressionistically Painted Duck Folk Art Doorstop, c. 1930s vintage native mask and on the inside is

and on the inside is a message from the American Tobacco Company announcing: "These Lucky Strikes will commend themselves to your critical approval

with two pairs of lovely carved notches along the edges of the rail on the top

which I found in Southern Maine

which very accurately portrays what I believe would be called a "homebrew" or kit radio of the 1920s-30s

Northwest Territories and settled in Holman with her family when she was 14 years old

Expressionistically Painted Duck Folk Art Doorstop, c. 1930s vintage native mask and on the inside isOne sees lots of old handmade wooden doorstops of a similar manner, especially featuring dogs, but I'm not sure I've ever seem one executed is such a painterly, expressionistic manner as this wonderful duck. Indeed, it is so warmly and specifically done, I have to think the subject was wandering about nearby as this was made! 6" tall and in very good condition. Some paint loss on the green stop but just a bit on the duck itself, and a little cracking