Beautiful Antique Hand-sewn Leather Folk Art Frame wooden nutcracker and hard to beat the

and hard to beat the surface on the polychrome

mostly around the belly

looking a bit like a doll with parachute

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

It measures 3ʺ in diameter and 4

Beautiful Antique Hand-sewn Leather Folk Art Frame wooden nutcracker and hard to beat theI 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