Sewer Tile Folk Art Bust with Great Face flat sewing basket This one I'd guess dates

This one I'd guess dates to the mid-20th century or so

either way

purely decorative pieces around the top

most of them were smashed long ago to retrieve the coins inside

with perhaps an old reglue-ing of one front leg on the horse but it is a bit hard to tell

Sewer Tile Folk Art Bust with Great Face flat sewing basket This one I'd guess datesA wonderfully folky example of sewer pipe sewer tile pottery, this guy would have been sculpted by a factory worker at the end of the day using leftover clay. One sees some sewer tile pieces that were made using molds, but it's the hand sculpted ones that I love, which were made as whimsies of sorts, sometimes as gifts and sometimes, as I understand it, as (often humorously exaggerated) portraits of bosses or co workers. This guy looks to me as if in