Antique Hand-cut Painted Tin Miniature Folk Art Chairs, with Sharp Teeth! shape sequence cards as certainly they were before

as certainly they were before incorporated into the piece

It is in excellent antique condition

This one was clearly used

These are joined together by a woven seam

There is a partial loss to one chip-carved strip at the rear on the lid

Antique Hand-cut Painted Tin Miniature Folk Art Chairs, with Sharp Teeth! shape sequence cards as certainly they were beforeI've never seen another pair quite like these, a pair of miniature chairs, one a rocker, cut from tin and painted red and black like toleware. They feel of a piece with those antique house and church shaped tole painted still banks I like so much in the same palette too, which makes me think likely late 19th century. And with fabulous gothic feeling detailing to backs and sides including some very sharp points, as if to say hands or bottoms off! Each