Wonderful Carved Folk Art Village by Howard Gilman, South Stratford, VT victorian mourning with a skeletal shaped head

with a skeletal shaped head with outlined eyes inverse to a smiling

with small puncture holes in the fabric and a bit of staining but many years of use left in it and still really great looking

This one made it through untouched and may be my favorite of the lot

which can be seen from the front only from an angle

so a pretty good one to hang on the wall as a reminder I'd say

Wonderful Carved Folk Art Village by Howard Gilman, South Stratford, VT victorian mourning with a skeletal shaped headI've found definitive dates for the Howard Gilman (1894 1979) of South Stratford, Vermont, who made these and stamped each one on the underside, but that's about it. I sure appreciate the love and labor and detail he put into these small wooden structures, though, which include a varied series of houses all with chimneys and most with log piles arranged in one configuration or another as well as a church, a covered bridge, a barn with silo, and a