Chicks Eating Strawberries, Antique Folk Art Oil on Board, Original Frame 1865 sampler "climb up here for a

"climb up here for a sandwich on the house

which at some point accrued two eyes each

I believe it was a cast iron foot from an old bathtub that was turned upside down

I've always got an eye peeled for beautiful antique sets of Spillikins

Chicks Eating Strawberries, Antique Folk Art Oil on Board, Original Frame 1865 sampler "climb up here for aSometimes a sweet and cheering old folk painting is just what's in order, and this one is very much that, making me very happy when I found it in inland southern Maine this week. Who can argue with fluffy yellow chicks and lushly ripe red strawberries? I love the big green cabbage leaf serving as a basket for the berries, too and the red dripping from the greedy little beaks of these two! Great carved wooden frame too in mellow gold paint, I believe