An Early 20thC Painted Papier-Mâché Scarecrow Owl c.1900-20 sub-Macabre- Medicine Expert wheel restorer and wood

Expert wheel restorer and wood turner David Byrant carried out the restoration work with the rebuilding of the bobbin whorl and a new footman

The frame has two small areas of loss

The impasto style is buoyant and the flagrant use of colour uplifting

We have seen pictures of children with parrots

sitting on large spoke cart wheels with rubber tyres

An Early 20thC Painted Papier-Mâché Scarecrow Owl c.1900-20 sub-Macabre- Medicine Expert wheel restorer and woodOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900 20Height: 8. 75Width: 4. 5Depth: 4 (all at extremities)The unique and most certainly charming hand painted decoy model of a stylised barn owl, acting as a scarecrow or bid scarer, the whole in papier mch with glass eyes and hollow form, surviving from the first quarter of twentieth century England. Remaining in good overall condition considering the fragility, the owl proves very