Sweet Old Folk Art Hanging Mailbox with Three Leaf Clover Window phials but the spoon component is

but the spoon component is gone

Which may have been exactly how the artist who I'd guess took the photo

There are splits in the wood in a couple of places

The result is a very monkey-like monkey with about as empathetic face as I can image

a labor union formed in 1915 to serve the interests of workers in the printing trade

Sweet Old Folk Art Hanging Mailbox with Three Leaf Clover Window phials but the spoon component isI had this one in my hands for a few minutes several years ago before selling it; happily the buyer, who has changed his collecting focus since, offered it back to me and I must say when I unpacked it I fell in love with it again and found it even better than I remembered! Honest construction, clean lines, good age, quite useful, but what really makes it for me is the clover club shaped cutout, backed with glass which makes it feel a bit like a bee