Curious Old Carved and Painted Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and Hands - or Cacti! Odd Fellows and scared out of his

and scared out of his mind

On the front is a slot large enough to take coins or dollars

I like to hold a piece of pottery in my hands before buying it

but the back side of this reveals definitively that is was a collaboration between 5th grader Carl Urban and Bob Urban (his father one might guess)

Curious Old Carved and Painted Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and Hands - or Cacti! Odd Fellows and scared out of hisThis one I found in Pennsylvania and find super curious. The painting on the front has a Southwestern flavor, and then on both sides are what look striped sleeved arms ending in hands with pink painted fingernails.. but which one also could perhaps instead take for flowering cacti! And then on the back, two stylized bird with pin pricked outlines that feel very Pennsylvania, making this feel like quite a hybrid thing. 1940s I would think, though