Large Carved and Painted Penguins - A Couple antler I can't imagine that it

I can't imagine that it didn't earn them an A++

but not another like this older one by an unknown maker

Poirer's work often included riddles and rebuses

There is a slightly darker area at the very center of the interior

a man playing a horn

Large Carved and Painted Penguins - A Couple antler I can't imagine that itI thought about selling these two individually, but as I photographed them realized they really are a couple (he's taller, she's wider) so thought best to keep them together, including for the fact that they're plenty large and heavy to function as bookends (or doorstops for that matter; they're 2+ lbs each.) I purchased them from a seller who found them at an estate sale in Alabama but don't know who made them; they're carved of solid wood, thickly