Batter and Catcher Watching Ball (or UFO!), Transcendent Old Snapshot Photo ice fishing reels with wonderfully curvaceous hand-carved form

with wonderfully curvaceous hand-carved form

and especially nice for the small size of the pin holding the legs together

as is the case with most of these

The chain measures 15 1/4" long x approx 3/4" wide and deep and is in excellent condition

painted in 1968 by a Melchor Garcia

Batter and Catcher Watching Ball (or UFO!), Transcendent Old Snapshot Photo ice fishing reels with wonderfully curvaceous hand-carved formI really really love this little snapshot. For me at least, it took a few moments to figure out that it is a catcher's mask and glove in the hands of the child at center, and the very end of a bat in the hand of the boy in the foreground, and so it must be a ball in the air that their eyes are following, though they appear to be looking in somewhat different directions for it! But between the framing and the light, and their faces and gestures and