Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! tramp art This terrific old striped wooden

This terrific old striped wooden horn makes a great sound

with a citation in the Hardware Dealers Magazine in 1913 noting that price cards like these (sold via catalogue as well as at the store) were Manson's speciality

and I believe based on a popular advertising image of the time

It weighs about 3 1/2 pounds

and took some liberties in giving the flag alternating blue with red stripes too

Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! tramp art This terrific old striped woodenIf ever there were an empathetic eagle, I think this may one himsquawking very loudly at me to bring him home! I assume made by a kid in art class, though perhaps by a folk artist with a lot of heart, hes got a brilliant humanity, with these black painted eyes with deep holes for the pupils at their centers, and then exuberantly incised lines for feathers all over. Perfectly painted gold with, rather inexplicably, a slightly metallic blue around his