Lovely Old Hand-carved Folk Art Blue Bird sentimental particularly at upper left corner

particularly at upper left corner

is a story

which does show some surface wear

extravagant week-long event founded in 1887 by Kansas City leaders with the intent of re-defining the city as "the Athens of the West"

floppy ears I'd guess represents a hound of some sort

Lovely Old Hand-carved Folk Art Blue Bird sentimental particularly at upper left cornerI found this one in Massachusetts yesterday and would imagine it originated in these parts, or perhaps Pennsylvania. Very sweetly done, with nice age to it, it looks to have stood on a small wooden post, the tip of which is still stuck in it. Somewhere along the way it lost the tip of its beak, which as I'm sure you know just makes it more endearing to me. 4 3 8" beak to tail x 1 1 4" w x 1 1 2" t and perches perfectly as it is.