SOLD Old Folk Art Bottle Cap Snake with Carved Wood Head and Tail and Polka Dots danish modern brooch sent to a "Fellow Member"

sent to a "Fellow Member" reports that the Fellows had "decided on this emblem" (though haven't started on buttons yet)

and standing in front of a backdrop with great spindly trees to one side

and highly relatable

While I purchased it in Massachusetts

product of a singular artistic vision

SOLD Old Folk Art Bottle Cap Snake with Carved Wood Head and Tail and Polka Dots danish modern brooch sent to a "Fellow Member"How could I resist this rattler, purchased this week from the case of one of my favorite dealers at an antiques shop in New Hampshire? Bottle cap rattle snakes were a thing, but much rarer to find one with a carved wood head and tail and painted in silver with polka dots! Great from every angle, fun to position, and so many contexts he would enliven. With the perfectly rusted bottle caps strung on wire, which comes out the mouth as its tongue. As