Red, White & Blue Mini Barber Pole Hand-carved Whimsies - Sold Individually woodcut grey and brown glazes over

grey and brown glazes over a cream slip

I am completely smitten with this letter opener

constructed of clay slabs cut into the shape of roosters

a woman carrying a basket on her head

I believe there were once two more and a matching salt shaker

Red, White & Blue Mini Barber Pole Hand-carved Whimsies - Sold Individually woodcut grey and brown glazes overI wonder if these charming old barber's pole whimsies were carved by a barber in his spare time? Maybe made as key fobs for the keys to the barber shop?! One finds some wonderful old hand carved barber shop poles and signs, but I've never seen mini versions like this. It may be the case that all three were once part of a larger piece, or the two short ones were opposite ends of one piece and the longer one has lost a link on the opposite end. At any