Crazy Old Welded Iron Folk Art Cabin! carving Just shy of 20" long

Just shy of 20" long

or would you rather Leave your dear mother and your father

Signed and dated what looks like 1908

As far as letters go

Long and lanky

Crazy Old Welded Iron Folk Art Cabin! carving Just shy of 20" longThis thing weighs a ton and its existence defies all practical logic, but of course this is much of what makes me really love it! I have to think its maker took great pleasure in its construction, using lines of weld to represent logs, and dots and dabs for the stone chimney, and then iron rods for the columns of the front porch. I found one smaller example out there dated late 19th early 20th century and would guess this one is not much off the