Vintage Folk Art Wood Duck Signed H. Sloan, Maine deep relief carving such that one end would

such that one end would hook into the other

and then straight to the table for serving

All spring loaded

with the owl used as a symbol to welcome good luck and good fortune

I found this amazing drawing in Bangor Maine

Vintage Folk Art Wood Duck Signed H. Sloan, Maine deep relief carving such that one end wouldI found this handsome wood duck in Southern Maine, perhaps not very far from where it was carved, though I haven't been able to find out much of anything about the H. Sloan who made it, other than that he, or she, was from Maine. However, I think perhaps they might be fairly recently deceased, as I recently found a collection of smaller carved birds by the same H. Sloan, only a few miles away from where I found this, which I sold here a month or two