Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! tramp art On the underside is glued

On the underside is glued a heavy lead weight

one could also stick a candle in it

This is a terrific turquoise glazed Bennington Potters mug and snack plate set

with a citation in the Hardware Dealers Magazine in 1913 noting that price cards like these (sold via catalogue as well as at the store) were Manson's speciality

Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! tramp art On the underside is gluedIf ever there were an empathetic eagle, I think this may one himsquawking very loudly at me to bring him home! I assume made by a kid in art class, though perhaps by a folk artist with a lot of heart, hes got a brilliant humanity, with these black painted eyes with deep holes for the pupils at their centers, and then exuberantly incised lines for feathers all over. Perfectly painted gold with, rather inexplicably, a slightly metallic blue around his