Bill and Carl Urban's Carved and Crayoned Horse and Rider folk art carving and then the sole features

and then the sole features cleat-like treats around the perimeter of toe and heel

I always have an eye out for vintage teaching toys and games with great graphics--allowing them to double as design objects

This charming vintage hand-painted Chinese Foochow lacquer bowl features a gold interior with three goldfish and a black exterior with a finely painted dramatic gold dragon with red and green details

with what appears to be “MM”  “’78” and VT

Gabriel Kohn

Bill and Carl Urban's Carved and Crayoned Horse and Rider folk art carving and then the sole featuresIt's a little bit hard to read from the front (but what a great bunch of cross outs at right!), 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), who played a "working" role. Seems likely the carving of the outlines of the drawing were was left to Bob, and that Carl was the colorist. In any event, pretty sweet results, with the blue frame around the