Small Double Sided Relief Carved Panel with Canoeing Figure, House and Animals sue kutosh print as good a stage/platform for

as good a stage/platform for a lion or tiger as for a baby

and I just really love that photo postcards were used to share astronomical phenomenon such as this

And on the reverse of the second one

and painted blue and red (much of which is clearly long gone

Small Double Sided Relief Carved Panel with Canoeing Figure, House and Animals sue kutosh print as good a stage/platform forI found this little carving at Brimfield in July and wanted to enjoy it for a bit before parting with it. I really don't know where it came from or why it is shaped the way it is at first I thought the lid of a carved box, but there is no sign there were ever hinges on it, just a small hole at the center of the bottom edge, which could have held a latch. (Maybe it was originally carved it as a box lid but its maker decided it was just right as a stand