Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper old ironstone Rhode Island

Rhode Island

many of them I think as good for adult cocktail parties as kid's birthdays

incredibly tender and just the right amount of awkward to make it completely charming

plus he has these finely and emphatically painted eyebrows

Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper old ironstone Rhode IslandThis amazing thing, quite a potent object I think, resonating in all sorts of ways. What a face, smiling but also perhaps a bit haunting, in very old, very crusty paint that clearly weathered the elements for many many years, with a red painted mouth stretching from one end to the other and perhaps a second eye like a shadow below the right one. Some old yellow paint around the edges too. The round, cast iron clapper inside produces the most wonderful