Giant Four Balls in Cage Carved Wooden Whimsy metallic glaze The front and back covers

The front and back covers of this copy of "The Doctor at Home"

with three dancing clowns in ballooning pants on one side

What a face on this fabulous little folk art cat

10 5/8" t x 7 1/4" x 3/4" thick

I'd guess with a cigar in his mouth

Giant Four Balls in Cage Carved Wooden Whimsy metallic glaze The front and back coversThis huge old whimsy is about the size of a rolling pin, and with its big knobs on either end, it really rather feels like one! I've been liking, and happily finding, some larger scale whimsies of late, which feel more like tabletop sculptures than little carvings, as this one does. This one definitely has a good amount of age, and I'd bet was used by a few generations of kids as a rattle (or bat!). There is one well done old repair at one corner that