Curious Pair of Old Carved Birds (Falcons?) on Posts handprinted make do sign with corners of photo tucked

with corners of photo tucked through slits in paper

15" t x 6 1/2" w

or an colorful object to set somewhere

and then three individual soldiers mounted to their own little blocks

with the box glazed in bright white and the flat lid in grays and yellow feeling very late 50s modernist abstraction

Curious Pair of Old Carved Birds (Falcons?) on Posts handprinted make do sign with corners of photo tuckedI purchased this these from a dealer based in Pennsylvania, but really don't know anything specific about them. I take them for falcons, calling to mind ancient Egyptian ones; they also remind me of a couple of old men standing on the corner talking about sports and neighborhood news! It seems possible they actually functioned as decoys of sorts, as there are a bunch of holes in the wood, as if a woodpecker went to work pecking away at them, and I