Internal Conflict: Antique Pennsylvania Folk Art Doorstop with Carved Eagle early blocks perhaps to scold her grabbiness

perhaps to scold her grabbiness

but surely not so much in the early days of electricity

executed in ink with watercolor detail on the tail plumes

8 3/8" x 1 1/4" x 1 3/8" t

Internal Conflict: Antique Pennsylvania Folk Art Doorstop with Carved Eagle early blocks perhaps to scold her grabbinessAnother one found in Pennsylvania, and I would bet that is where it was made, with a bit of a Wilhelm Schimmel character to the carving of the eagle. What really sold me on this was the internal tension embedded in it to use it as a doorstop is to lay that eagle flat on its back, and to come very close at least to treading on it. Which makes it feel very much like a metaphor. Oh, America. 6 1 4" x 1 7 8" x 1 1 4". Wear to the bottom edge of the