Lovely Old Hand-carved Folk Art Blue Bird wooden block Even cooler to learn about

Even cooler to learn about the fascinating  life of "Professor" Robert Heller  (born William Henry Palmer

and while not all are great

my favorite part being the yellow webbed feet against green painted base but the expressionistically done black detailing on the wings is pretty good too

Best I think are the small diagrams of triangles

it's a nice size for serving small bites

Lovely Old Hand-carved Folk Art Blue Bird wooden block Even cooler to learn aboutI found this one in Massachusetts yesterday and would imagine it originated in these parts, or perhaps Pennsylvania. Very sweetly done, with nice age to it, it looks to have stood on a small wooden post, the tip of which is still stuck in it. Somewhere along the way it lost the tip of its beak, which as I'm sure you know just makes it more endearing to me. 4 3 8" beak to tail x 1 1 4" w x 1 1 2" t and perches perfectly as it is.