Unusual Hand-painted Old Wooden Pop-Out Wall Holder with Figure, Bridge, Mountains bat shaped vessel with no notable chips or

with no notable chips or splits that I can see

with a few minor dings/scratches to the surface of the wood

Just incredibly constructed from top to bottom and in fantastic condition--really quite a thing

gripping the tails of the cloak while looking straight out at us

5 1/2" x 8 7/8" and in very good condition

Unusual Hand-painted Old Wooden Pop-Out Wall Holder with Figure, Bridge, Mountains bat shaped vessel with no notable chips orI've never seen another little wall shelf holder like this one, which I find a pretty ingenious as well as evocative thing, perhaps meant to hold letters and it does look as if our rather lonely looking figure could use the lift of a handwritten letter from a friend! I really love how when popped out the space in between feels as if a gap between two places, as if the figure were far away from mountainous landscape in the distance, with the white