Wonderful Large Carved Folk Art Muscleman Holding Basket Overhead rusty trivet 1 1/2" wide

1 1/2" wide

and those fantastic black dots that vary a bit in size from side to side and sometime come right up against the edges

dense on the front and sparser on the reverse

Maple Sugar-ing

Wonderful Large Carved Folk Art Muscleman Holding Basket Overhead rusty trivet 1 1/2" wideI don't know who made this folk art strongman, but I think he is really fabulous, and would be pretty great in an entryway offering an unforgettable spot to toss one's keys! Really, he looks to me most of all like an all American farm boy, maybe carrying a load of laundry in the basket overhead. And a super basket it is, too, nicely woven of colorful plastic wire cord of varying widths, with a wooden bottom, to which his hands are forever joined. Then