Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome puppet with snake This old handmade box makes

This old handmade box makes me very happy

Details offer the truest sense of color

very good structural condition

Everything about it except for the red paint makes me believe it is a Dorman Products Hardware storage cabinet from the 1950s or so

Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome puppet with snake This old handmade box makesQuite a thing, found in mid coast Maine last weekend, and which I have very much enjoyed carrying around since! Taller than a walking stick, and with a dramatic crook, I would call this a staff and have to think it had a ceremonial function surely wielded by an Odd Fellows Grand Master as an object of power, and seems quite an effective one for keeping the flock in line! With a beautifully carved face, black (finely eye lashed) eyes, long black beard