Very Naive Pair of Painted Wooden Cutout Brown Dog Bookends wire stand There is a vertical fold

There is a vertical fold to the cover and a few pages

I can never keep old sets of Color Cubes in the shop for long

with just a bit of copper streak on the diagonal across Eve

8 7/8" t x 5 1/4" w (I seem to have forgotten to measure the depth but would say 3" or so

Mid 19th century or so New England

Very Naive Pair of Painted Wooden Cutout Brown Dog Bookends wire stand There is a vertical foldHow to resist this pair? For me it's a lot about their silhouettes, with those very very thin front legs, cut I'd guess by someone not yet too expert with the jigsaw! Very sincere all the way through, down the somewhat wavering carved lines outlining ears and collars. And yet something about the combination of the matte brown of the dogs and the mossy green of the grass lends them a certain elegance. How nice to have these at either end of the shelf,