#folkartfiend

Paper kite made in Mexico in the 1970s. 

Magician Mechanical Bank from 1901: Designed by virtuoso bank inventor Charles A. Bailey, the Magician Bank is based on the timeless vanishing rabbit trick.  When one places a coin under the magician’s top hat and presses the lever, the hat covers the coin, and the coin “magically disappears,” sliding down a cleverly designed (and hard to detect) chute. Upon the lever’s release, the magician raises his hat, revealing an empty table.

Custom-built motorbike - Alabama, US. 

Leopard dressed up for the Losango dance. ( Camerun, ca 1900)

Dreary dreamers: A salt print photograph taken by John Dillwyn Llewelyn of his daughter Elinor Llewelyn holding a doll in 1853. The negative printed ferns around it are added in the process afterwards.

Early 20th century homemade beekeepers helmet. 

One can never have too much of Henry Dargers realms of the unreal, here some more illustrations from his epic ”The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion”

Deer hoof Knife bought in Marseille, France.