One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand paper cards or for one's favorite optimist

or for one's favorite optimist

And carved links at either end make for easy hanging

and then this early 20th century photo portrait of a Zeeland woman in one of a slightly different sort has me wanting to carve out some time to do a deep dive into these very particular traditional head ornaments

7 1/4” l measured on the square x 7 1/4” t x 1 1/2” d (base

it's an elephant

One Ball After Another, 24 Inch Tall Intricately Carved Old Carved Folk Art Whimsy with Custom Stand paper cards or for one's favorite optimistAnother week, another whimsy, not because good old ones are easy to find, but because you always grab them fast when I do, and so I look hard for them. Some long and tall whimsies (and some chains, too) were carved from broom handles, as I'm pretty certain was the case here (this one precisely 24 inches in length ) which I really like the idea of, very much a make do sort of carving, the utilitarian mundane transformed, and of course a real whittler