Based on several other watercolors by the same artist
The end of the handle is wrapped in leather
Framed as found in a solid wood frame (from which it could easily be removed)
There is a fantastic variety of Australian Aboriginal clapsticks out there--many decorated with burned designs like these
with just a bit of loss of gilding in a few spots
Old Folk Art Toy Guns - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY pair of boxes Based on several other watercolorsI bought these together, and imagine they were made by the same person many years ago, but as one may not need four toy guns I'm selling them individually. The two at top in the first photo are pretty much the same, and the bottom two similar, one with a metal strip for a finger, the other not, but both with printed text on one side, which I think makes them wonderfully graphic. Great lines, nice patinas and a movable hammer on the revolvers. Much