Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters tall copper box and Arts & Crafts era

and Arts & Crafts era craft

The perfect addition to a collection of wonderful old brushes--or just a lovely object to set somewhere or hang on the wall

and is stamped on the bottom of one foot

I don't know a lot about glass

as pictured--minor

Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters tall copper box and Arts & Crafts eraThere are times when I am simply incapable of not buying something, and rationalize that even if no one else falls in love with it, I'll be happy just to keep it for myself. Like this gloriously hand painted desk, signed on the back "To my son, Da Mumma" and dated 1940. It's large to be a lap desk, but would be a handy thing to stash all of one's stuff inside in order to move from table to table, wherever one want might to work, or draw, or paint, and