Old Folk Art Bottle Whimsy with Crucifixion Scene red orange yellow Staining along the bottom edge

Staining along the bottom edge and scattered

with great surface on both sides

Titled "Ship Building

I believe this lovely little wooden box/frame would have been carried in a pocket

and then on the back we learn that the "spatulate hand" indicates an often tyrannical disposition

Old Folk Art Bottle Whimsy with Crucifixion Scene red orange yellow Staining along the bottom edgeNot for everyone, surely, but I found this super folky bottle whimsy crucifixion scene pretty hard to resist. Here we have Jesus on the tallest cross and the two thieves who were crucified beside him, and then, I would guess, Mary and St. John standing in front dressed in black for mourning she looking very disturbed but he, oddly smiling. Visible from the back side are the assembled props a ladder, a hammer, and what looks to be a giant matchstick