SOLD Charming Folk Art Daughters of Rebekah / Odd Fellows Carved Gavel with Block color swatch card This haloed "angel" figure recurred

This haloed "angel" figure recurred in his work

color pencil on thin paper

7 1/16" x 7 1/16"

pencil and pastel I believe

Very good vintage condition--a bit of aging to the wood and paint

SOLD Charming Folk Art Daughters of Rebekah / Odd Fellows Carved Gavel with Block color swatch card This haloed "angel" figure recurredGavels are a recurring theme this week used for calling a start or stop to official proceedings, symbolic of law and order, and also just useful things for sounding the alarm so I'd say we all need one right now! This sweet, scratch made folk art gavel was carved with Odd Fellows iconography, and specifically that of Daughters of Rebekah, the women's branch of the Odd Fellows: a bee skep on one side (representing cooperative hard work), a dove and