Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) lap desk and this is a beauty—as

and this is a beauty—as simple and honest as can be

perhaps just tossed into the air by the man at the top of the ladder

Direction is established by the nicely detailed compass at bottom the left

into which all of the components neatly fit

and iconic feeling in its spare concision: AMERICAN PRODUCE

Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) lap desk and this is a beauty—asI watched this one recently come and go in at auction as part of the late dealer collector Matt King's estate, one in a lot of several objects. (With most everything fetching prices way beyond me, I gave up.). But then this little whimsy showed up elsewhere (I guess the buyer bought the lot for something else in it) so I grabbed it. How that marble got inside is a bit less of a mystery than I thought (one short end shows a diagonal cut, so the wood