Doris Coe's Sep 1906 Hanging Ball in Cage Whimsy model airplane wings with bright and colorfully painted

with bright and colorfully painted equipment and

This is one of several c

with this wonderfully expressive

and then director of the Bradford Civic Playhouse in Bradford

With golden cut paper heart and hand-colored (watercolored it looks to me) LOVE giving rise to an angel with butterfly wings emerging from the center of a rose

Doris Coe's Sep 1906 Hanging Ball in Cage Whimsy model airplane wings with bright and colorfully paintedDoris Coe, Sep 1905 I suppose possibly a gift to a young Doris, but I much prefer to think it was Doris who carved it, and though Doris was sometimes a name given to boys, I'd like to think our Doris was female. A sweet old whimsy, whatever the case, pine I believe, with nice detailing especially to the rounded bottom the "cage". One could string and wear as a pendant now, or hang on the wall from a nail, or just lay it amid the other whimsies in the