Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome antique photograph or the identity of the

or the identity of the head on top

which show what I believe is called "crawling shino"--an effect caused by the glaze shrinking during drying and then separating into clumps

in a variety of shapes and colors

and the variegated color of the now well rusted iron

Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome antique photograph or the identity of theQuite a thing, found in mid coast Maine last weekend, and which I have very much enjoyed carrying around since! Taller than a walking stick, and with a dramatic crook, I would call this a staff and have to think it had a ceremonial function surely wielded by an Odd Fellows Grand Master as an object of power, and seems quite an effective one for keeping the flock in line! With a beautifully carved face, black (finely eye lashed) eyes, long black beard