Very Sweet Old Handmade Wooden Model Dinghy double frame with leg extending 20" back

with leg extending 20" back

and its treatment looks to me to include freehand painting

vases and tableware

John Beale

as an object

Very Sweet Old Handmade Wooden Model Dinghy double frame with leg extending 20" backOne definitely needs a life boat these days, and here one is. I found it at an antique shop in Upstate NY, heading up toward Lake George and a few feet away a miniature pack basket, also listed today, which felt quite sympatico with it. Looks scratch made to me, with plenty of imperfection to the cutting of the thwarts, which overlay that beautifully slatted floor of the boat. Maybe there was once a carved wooden rudder attached to the back, I'm not