Fish Shaped Boy at Sea, Real Photo Postcard Masked Image letter opener with carved head This folk art pull toy

This folk art pull toy may be my very very favorite of all of the objects I have had in the shop--to my eye

requiring the assistance of my smart mother to put it back together

occasionally I buy things that looked much better in photos

as well as two sets of initials

Fish Shaped Boy at Sea, Real Photo Postcard Masked Image letter opener with carved head This folk art pull toyIt is hard to get a full sense of this beauty without holding it in your hands, where you really feel its object hood, but I do believe this real photo postcard really transcends itself to feel to like quite a little work of art. Part of what I think makes it great is the darkness of the photograph, such that the features of the figure are quite difficult to read, giving the whole thing a sense of mystery, and a bit of a haunting feel I keep thinking