One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand green white brown 1850s--often the royal cards in

1850s--often the royal cards in these decks just featured figures

same balls on wires) attributed to Francisco and dated to the 1970s

Overall condition is excellent with some paint loss on both sides of the neck of one figure

He wore a pig tail as many Chinese did then

I was sold on this beautiful little treen box before I even opened it--looking like a very finely turned beehive bank but round and with a pedestal base

One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand green white brown 1850s--often the royal cards inAnother week, another whimsy, not because good old ones are easy to find, but because you always grab them fast when I do, and so I look hard for them. Some long and tall whimsies (and some chains, too) were carved from broom handles, as I'm pretty certain was the case here (this one precisely 24 inches in length ) which I really like the idea of, very much a make do sort of carving, the utilitarian mundane transformed, and of course a real whittler