Vintage Folk Art Wood Duck Signed H. Sloan, Maine his and her nude bookends Beautiful warm dry wood patina

Beautiful warm dry wood patina to the horse

but not rusted through

with a little staining/darkening to the board

it features both wide and thin black elastic bands plus black ribbons for securing it firmly in place

Vintage Folk Art Wood Duck Signed H. Sloan, Maine his and her nude bookends Beautiful warm dry wood patinaI found this handsome wood duck in Southern Maine, perhaps not very far from where it was carved, though I haven't been able to find out much of anything about the H. Sloan who made it, other than that he, or she, was from Maine. However, I think perhaps they might be fairly recently deceased, as I recently found a collection of smaller carved birds by the same H. Sloan, only a few miles away from where I found this, which I sold here a month or two