Old Folk Art Sewer Tile Bear with Flat Back, Wrapped Tail, and Cypher homemade game board too--best understood through details (and

too--best understood through details (and hard to capture well in photos white trying to balance with the softer

The color lends a whimsical sort of feeling to it

they came in a wooden slide box that I think the humidity has made a tight fit for a few

and the lettering to about then as well

one small block penciled lightly with a window to more or less mimic the others

Old Folk Art Sewer Tile Bear with Flat Back, Wrapped Tail, and Cypher homemade game board too--best understood through details (andI found this old bear in Pennsylvania, a folk art sewer tile end of day creation I believe, with terrific all over incising into the clay to evince fur, and my favorite detail the tail wrapped around one hind leg. Two little holes for the nostrils pressed into the underside of the snout, too. Really a sweet and singular one, with flat back that seems poised for carrying friends! Early 20th century I believe, with two marks or initials scratched into