SOLD Charming Folk Art Daughters of Rebekah / Odd Fellows Carved Gavel with Block child watercolor with the angled grain of

with the angled grain of the wood where the end lap perfectly complementing the outwardly angling form of the bowl

heavy and sturdy and sound

or sewn onto something else--or perhaps one might collect a bunch and complete a quilt with them now

made for a fairly large doll

I'd guess it dates to the 60s or 70s and believe that it is bronze

SOLD Charming Folk Art Daughters of Rebekah / Odd Fellows Carved Gavel with Block child watercolor with the angled grain ofGavels are a recurring theme this week used for calling a start or stop to official proceedings, symbolic of law and order, and also just useful things for sounding the alarm so I'd say we all need one right now! This sweet, scratch made folk art gavel was carved with Odd Fellows iconography, and specifically that of Daughters of Rebekah, the women's branch of the Odd Fellows: a bee skep on one side (representing cooperative hard work), a dove and