RCS's January 1931 Adirondack Folk Art Hanging Match Holder Shelf handblown Murano glass Really quite beautiful

Really quite beautiful

Tape the Draper

Another early 1900s Dutch school work sampler

which came from the collection of "Smitty" Axtell

RCS's January 1931 Adirondack Folk Art Hanging Match Holder Shelf handblown Murano glass Really quite beautifulFound not far from the Adirondacks, photos don't do justice to the presence and charm or heft! of this one, carved by a "RCS" in January of 1931, who signed it proudly on the back, and who one imagines immediately hung on the wall to hold matches for the fire (and maybe the pipe, too) in the middle of a long and dark winter. I love everything about it, especially the wide "Y" shaped twig at center doing the work of making a rail for the shelf between