Beautiful Antique Hand-sewn Leather Folk Art Frame wooden nutcracker I found a great fungus

I found a great fungus conk pyrographed with an owl a month or two ago by the same maker that signed this one

It seems the name of its owner

and I love the perfectly round form of this one echoed in the perfectly round loop of a handle

This terra cotta sculpture is unsigned

Beautiful Antique Hand-sewn Leather Folk Art Frame wooden nutcracker I found a great fungusI love the back almost as much as the front on this antique folk art frame, with all of those hand stitches against brown paper telling the story of its composition of hundred of bits of brown leather. Like a leather workers version of a cigar box wood tramp art frame, but much rarer to find in my experience.(Also feels a bit like a precursor to folded cigarette pack frames.) Lovely, with a rich, warm patina to the leather. 8 1 2" x 7 1 2" and in good