Hand-Carved, Polychromed Mid-century (Not So) Miniature Bench decorative time What fun to have this

What fun to have this vintage Towle pewter shell game set around--perhaps to pull out at cocktail parties

and what it means to be a Mason

The brand's enduring slogan

just brilliant

and still readable on the cover is a date of 1910

Hand-Carved, Polychromed Mid-century (Not So) Miniature Bench decorative time What fun to have thisThis charming, not so small hand carved bench seems very much one of a kind to me, I'd think late 1960s or early 70s, perhaps inspired by the style of Creative Playthings toys and similar, which it feels like a folk version of to me. I believe it was carved of just two pieces of wood the arched back piece being one, and the front and legs the second. Painted polychomed black, green, and red, plus yellow for the arms, which reads pretty much like