Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome vase with glass tube and embroidery is well secured

and embroidery is well secured to it with no losses that I can see

A little paint loss and a bit of minor flaking but stable and structure is very sound

though would be easily taken apart

I’ve learned from a brilliant Dutch instagram follower that it is based on a c

Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome vase with glass tube and embroidery is well securedQuite a thing, found in mid coast Maine last weekend, and which I have very much enjoyed carrying around since! Taller than a walking stick, and with a dramatic crook, I would call this a staff and have to think it had a ceremonial function surely wielded by an Odd Fellows Grand Master as an object of power, and seems quite an effective one for keeping the flock in line! With a beautifully carved face, black (finely eye lashed) eyes, long black beard