RCS's January 1931 Adirondack Folk Art Hanging Match Holder Shelf miniature check and a couple of pretty

and a couple of pretty minor surface scratches on the seascape aside as pictured

early 1980s or so

Really super sweet

I usually gravitate toward older retablos

4" tall x 3 1/8" wide x 1 3/4" deep

RCS's January 1931 Adirondack Folk Art Hanging Match Holder Shelf miniature check and a couple of prettyFound not far from the Adirondacks, photos don't do justice to the presence and charm or heft! of this one, carved by a "RCS" in January of 1931, who signed it proudly on the back, and who one imagines immediately hung on the wall to hold matches for the fire (and maybe the pipe, too) in the middle of a long and dark winter. I love everything about it, especially the wide "Y" shaped twig at center doing the work of making a rail for the shelf between