James McFarland's c. 1900 Speller and Word Book with Good Endpage Lettering and Scribbles folk art wooden church 3 1/4" w at base

3 1/4" w at base x 3 1/16" d at base

Ladder: 8 1/2" l x 1 7/8" wide

A close kinship between them and carved and jointed wooden dolls otherwise

from the images

though I think likely it is at least a bit older than that

James McFarland's c. 1900 Speller and Word Book with Good Endpage Lettering and Scribbles folk art wooden church 3 1/4" w at baseI am forever opening old spellers to check their end pages for names and drawings and doodles spaces of endless expressive potential! This one was once the possession of a young James McFarland, of Lebanon, Tennessee which is precisely where I found it. I find the lettering spelling out the name of his hometown, surrounded by many iterations of his name and and various marks and shapes and numbers etc. pretty beautiful. More at the end, too, looking