Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels folk art wooden cutout 3 1/2" t x 15/16"

3 1/2" t x 15/16" w x 1 1/2" d and in good overall condition and structurally very sound

" And much loved it was

feeling perhaps like workers' housing

the blocks stack on dowels

and makes me wish Joyce Pensato were still around in order to be gifted it

Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels folk art wooden cutout 3 1/2" t x 15/16"I found this one at Brimfield in the booth of a delightful seller who always has charming things; it was filled end to end with a bunch of old children's books, but happily she was willing to relocate those into a big pile and let me steal the shelf away, as I'm pretty smitten with these squirrels! Made with lots of love I'd bet by a parent or grandparent as a gift for a young child in the 1940s or 50s, with mellow gold paint on the exterior of the