Unusual Hand-painted Old Wooden Pop-Out Wall Holder with Figure, Bridge, Mountains tin platform I believe cedar

I believe cedar

Probably more of a beautiful thing than a super useful tool these days

There is one small chip to the glaze on the interior bottom

which is screwed into the base

Unusual Hand-painted Old Wooden Pop-Out Wall Holder with Figure, Bridge, Mountains tin platform I believe cedarI've never seen another little wall shelf holder like this one, which I find a pretty ingenious as well as evocative thing, perhaps meant to hold letters and it does look as if our rather lonely looking figure could use the lift of a handwritten letter from a friend! I really love how when popped out the space in between feels as if a gap between two places, as if the figure were far away from mountainous landscape in the distance, with the white