Fabulous Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and White Circus Horse primitive foot stool I should have guessed

I should have guessed

The wood has probably darkened a bit and is rough in spots

5 1/4" in diameter

Universal PAT D Feb 8 1927" is pressed on the bottom (although hard to read)

and I'd just pretend those spots are raindrops

Fabulous Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and White Circus Horse primitive foot stool I should have guessedOf course I love the colorful birds here, parrots I guess, forming a sort of heart that makes this one seem especially fit for Valentine's Day. But it is the painting of the horse at the center of the wall box that really sold me on this definitely the improvisatory addition of whoever made this many years ago, and just so good I think. The wood is at least in part salvaged from old cigar boxes, as there is a label still visible on the interior of the