Featured could you please help me with ? folk art fox

Hello all!
I've had this many years but have been wondering if these were mass produced or if he would be considered folk art. I realize he has little value but I am interested to know how he came into being. Thanks for your thoughts.

 

He sure looks custom carved to me, BWDIK!!!! Cute as a button too......shoe shine brush??? How big/long is he/it??

 

Thank you fro your reply...he is about 9 inches long...I like his eyes.

 

yes yes ,...little value....so..why don't you throw him my way so i could take the burden of finding his history off your hands.......you know....relieve you of having to figure out what it is....or dusting it...or moving it from hither to yon.....
you know....like a pal would do !!!

 

the carving is sublime......

 

That's a foxy fox!

 

think hes definetly smelled himself a chicken, on the prowl for sure !!

 

love it by the way

 

or hes just heard the horns of a pack of grown up baffoons in red jackets

 

OY !!! i,ve got the red jacket, but not on horseback, and i also love foxes..it is a great brush...regards...pewter2

 

ill always sympathise with foxes being a ginger myself

why's it only ginger foxes there after !! tehe

 

Would this be a shoe brush? (I liked the fox so much that I just now noticed that it's a brush!)

Are the bristles made from hair, or plastic, or wire, or something else?

Because of the brush I wouldn't think it would be folk art. I could be wrong, though.

 

I thought clothes or shoe brush..doesn't look like it was ever used on shoes but really don't know. Bristles are soft and I think natural not man made. Thank you all for your input..it feels really nice to have others enjoy something I am fond of!

 

beauty comes in all shapes and forms, seeing this today brightened my day

 

Sly Fox

 

The tail looks like a handle and at only 9 inches total.....clothes....or HAT brush would be my 1st call.

 

HAT!!!!! never entered my mind..thank you

 

Like....who brushes their fur felt hats anymore ??

 

I'd be willing to buy a hat to brush, just to use that fine little fellow.