{"product_id":"estatefreshaustincom-2946","title":"Mid Century FOLK ART sculpture matchstick African and\/or Prison Art Nice Detail","description":"I really don't try to talk things up very often, but this is a really nice\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;piece. This piece has a really nice patina all over front and back. It's never\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;been to an auction house or online ever. I really don't know whether it's from\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;the thirties or the sixties. I don't think it's 19th century. It's good quality\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;with a nice patina. It's the kind of piece that would stand out in any\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;environment and match at the same time. It's made out of no telling how many\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;thousands of wooden matches. You have to examine really closely to see any\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;traces of glue, I'm talking like 6\". At that distance you can definitely tell\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;the wood and the glue are at least 50 years old. Everything about the back says\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;it's old. Old rope, old nails, slight old patinated rust. It'd be way more\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;trouble to fake this than it's worth. That's probably enough matches to give\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;three people cancer. It's extremely intricate, I've seen other matchstick stuff\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;that was like jailhouse stuff from the 70,'s. Nothing even close to this. All\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;the work that went into this, this guy would've had to have a life sentence. The\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;woods are really nice, the back board looks like balsa wood, I don't know if\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;this is African or American. I assume it would be one of the two, but really\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;know nothing about it other than it's old and has the name Damala on it and of\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;course that it's in Austin and freshly exposed. It measures 33.75\" x 25 15\/16 to\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;outside of frame. No damage to report, it's old and there's some minor wear on\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;the frame, but it's clean. I don't know if DAMALA is the artist or the person\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;being depicted.","brand":"sale - www.estatefreshaustin.com Estate Fresh Austin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46746924417240,"sku":"1330230400_83EF","price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/6284\/7960\/files\/mid-century-folk-art-sculpture-matchstick-african-andor-prison-art-nice-detailestate-fresh-austin-484990.png?v=1757963567","url":"https:\/\/estatefreshaustin.com\/id\/products\/estatefreshaustincom-2946","provider":"Estate Fresh Austin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}