Folk Art

Exceptional Early Folk Art Love Token Braid Loom

With Arched Cresting Flanked by Carved Twin Hearts
Two Further Hearts, Handled Urns with Flowers and Twin Love Birds
Hand Carved Birchwood with Original Painted Decoration
Carved Inscription “ANNO 1795”
Swedish, c.1795

10.00" high x 7.75" wide x 2.00" deep

(Ref: 36/18)

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Root Head Brandt Goose Decoy

Hand Carved and Painted Wood
With Original Glass Eyes
Branded 'J. F. Danes- Blue Pt'
American South Shore Island, c.1880

14.00" high x 26.00" wide x 9.00" deep

(Ref: 30/12)

Provenance: Huey Collection, Doyles 1984.

A fine working example of a genuine late 19th Century hand carved and painted hunter’s working Goose Decoy. With branded inscription to the underside confirming the provenance to J. F. Danes and together with a later collectors numbering from the Huey collection. This is a finely documented historical example from the American Decoy tradition. The wonderfully formed root head has been fixed with several rose headed, hand wrought nails in an appealingly primitive and functional manner and there is a loss towards the back on the top left side where a knot had shrunk and broken out. The bird retains much of the original painted surface although there are small areas of paint loss and bruising evident which is much how we like to find genuine working examples. As with many of the finest Folk Art Decoys, this example has a wonderfully life like expressiveness to its form and an alertness to its head, suggesting that is was fashioned by a hunter who knew and understood the characteristics and form of his quarry.

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Original Double-Sided Butcher's Trade Sign For 'H.M. ARKIN'

Depicting a Hanging Ham
Painted Wood Within Original Metal Frame
Inscribed 'H.M. Arkin
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English, c.1870

34.00" high x 30.00" wide x 1.00" deep

(Ref: 33/43)

Fine original hand painted sign depicting a whole ham. Painted on a boarded panel, bound with the original wrought iron frame and retaining the fixings for hanging. This pictorial trade sign is from the time when shops and tradesmen advertised themselves and their premises with images of their product or work and streets were crowded with wonderful images hanging from storefronts. In excellent original condition and of great primitive charm, this engaging piece of authentic folk art would now make a wonderful original art work for a stylish home kitchen, restaurant or deli.

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Rare Early Wood Pigeon Decoy

With Unusually Pronounced Breast
Hand Carved and Painted Wood with Glass Eyes
English, c.1880

13.00" high x 12.00" wide x 3.25" deep

(Ref: 36/25)

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Massive Early Twin Handled Domestic Mortar

Solid Oxidised Patinated Cast Iron with Traces of Historic Paint

Probably English, c.1600

11.00" high x 14.00" wide x 9.75" deep

(Ref: 36/34)

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Rare Early Wood Pigeon Decoy

With Unusually Pronounced Red Breast
Hand Carved and Painted Wood with Glass Eyes
English, c.1880

13.00" high x 12.00" wide x 3.25" deep

(Ref: 36/25)

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Tall Rushlight Nip and Candleholder

On circular base
With Writhen Stem
Hand Wrought Iron
Irish, c.1770

15.25" high

4.75" in diameter

(Ref: 36/46)

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Arrow Weathervane

Stylised Arrow Weathervane
Weathered Zinc and Copper with Natural Verdigris
(Base 7” squared)
Northern European, c.1840

29.00" high x 29.00" wide x 4.50" deep

(Ref: 27/9)

A simple well drawn traditional arrow form weather vane of restrained elegant design, with a ball finial above a generous point and well feathered arrow. Now bearing a pleasantly weathered and textured surface to the zinc and copper elements, it has a bold graphic appeal that would compliment an eclectic contemporary space. In good original condition and with delightful natural verdigris accent to the original stem.

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Exceptional Early Folk Art Love Token Braid Loom

Root Head Brandt Goose Decoy

Original Double-Sided Butcher's Trade Sign For 'H.M. ARKIN'

Rare Early Wood Pigeon Decoy

Massive Early Twin Handled Domestic Mortar

Rare Early Wood Pigeon Decoy

Tall Rushlight Nip and Candleholder

Arrow Weathervane

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