RCS's January 1931 Adirondack Folk Art Hanging Match Holder Shelf handblown Murano glass Tape the Draper

Tape the Draper

which came from the collection of "Smitty" Axtell

Really quite beautiful

when apparently they were commonly seen in saloons and cigar shops

This print

RCS's January 1931 Adirondack Folk Art Hanging Match Holder Shelf handblown Murano glass Tape the DraperFound 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