Unusual Hand-painted Old Wooden Pop-Out Wall Holder with Figure, Bridge, Mountains bat shaped vessel as most I have in

as most I have in this style contain an interior compartment--usually concealed by a sliding top--for stashing snuff (ground tobacco

gripping the tails of the cloak while looking straight out at us

Just incredibly constructed from top to bottom and in fantastic condition--really quite a thing

which is part of what I like about these pieces

with a few minor dings/scratches to the surface of the wood

Unusual Hand-painted Old Wooden Pop-Out Wall Holder with Figure, Bridge, Mountains bat shaped vessel as most I have inI've never seen another little wall shelf holder like this one, which I find a pretty ingenious as well as evocative thing, perhaps meant to hold letters and it does look as if our rather lonely looking figure could use the lift of a handwritten letter from a friend! I really love how when popped out the space in between feels as if a gap between two places, as if the figure were far away from mountainous landscape in the distance, with the white