Vintage Folk Art Wood Duck Signed H. Sloan, Maine deep relief carving and then straight to the

and then straight to the table for serving

and also his good intentions: to deliver a painting to the recipient (at first I thought his dad

with the owl used as a symbol to welcome good luck and good fortune

and I want to see it on the kitchen counter filled with daffodils

6 3/4" t x 7" across at handle

Vintage Folk Art Wood Duck Signed H. Sloan, Maine deep relief carving and then straight to theI found this handsome wood duck in Southern Maine, perhaps not very far from where it was carved, though I haven't been able to find out much of anything about the H. Sloan who made it, other than that he, or she, was from Maine. However, I think perhaps they might be fairly recently deceased, as I recently found a collection of smaller carved birds by the same H. Sloan, only a few miles away from where I found this, which I sold here a month or two