Amazing Old Scratch Built Wooden Folk Art House Bank with Checkerboard Roof, Opening Door and Intensively Carved Details coal train with those faces

with those faces

which shows a sort of white-gray now that's just right and makes them feel all the more classical

and what are they selling

There is not a lot out there about Jane Heald

Amazing Old Scratch Built Wooden Folk Art House Bank with Checkerboard Roof, Opening Door and Intensively Carved Details coal train with those facesCollector dealer Pat Hatch, well known for her extraordinary black doll collection, has been selling some small things at an antiques shop I heavily frequent in Maine; I scooped up several pieces from her this week, including this little carved cottage in polychrome and a second tin house too. I just couldn't resist this feels about as akin to a gingerbread house as a carved folk art house bank could, and the love and attention to detail invested in