Sweet Handmade Wooden Skunk on Nail Post school sampler 3" across at base and

3" across at base and 4 3/4" across at lip

A sort of haunting specter of another era

though I think it has a bit of a Mexican ratablo feel mixed in

not the date

Painting mostly with house paint on plywood or cardboard

Sweet Handmade Wooden Skunk on Nail Post school sampler 3" across at base andI come across many more old wooden cutout bunnies and roosters intended for the yard than I do skunks, so I was pretty pleased to find this guy, who is perfectly skunklike but not fussy in the least. He definitely shows age, but if he lived outdoors I don't think it was through New England winters, as the wood and paint cloth are in good shape. His post is a very long nail rather than a spike, so it seems possible he could have been a topper on