Beautiful Antique Hand-sewn Leather Folk Art Frame vintage lawn art looking rather like an eye

looking rather like an eye or a little face

sometimes with a horse race game inside

with small tears to the bottom corners of the card

I don't think these are very old

from large scale very finely carved wood sculptures

Beautiful Antique Hand-sewn Leather Folk Art Frame vintage lawn art looking rather like an eyeI 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