Fantastic, Large Old Folk Art Log Cabin with Wonderfully Carved Interlocking Beams and Chinking design toys and textures on this make

and textures on this make it feel as much like sculpture as a functional object

and then initials planted by artillery shells or perhaps bombs on the side

) And then all of this amazing ornament--silver and gold wirework and paper coiling forming ribbons and flowers and flourishes

I think none of that really matters

MA in a house filled to the brim with a lifetime's accumulation with all sorts of wonderful things

Fantastic, Large Old Folk Art Log Cabin with Wonderfully Carved Interlocking Beams and Chinking design toys and textures on this makeI am in love with this thing, the super visceral presence and both visual and physical weight of which photos don't adequately capture. The fat, beautifully carved pentagonally shaped ends of the beams where they interlock at the corners completely does it for me (just look at them, SO juicy!), all the better for the chinking filling in the gaps between the beams as with a real log cabin. Wonderfully constructed, as solid and sturdy as they come, and