Double Faced Hand-carved Folk Art Jig Figure 19th century Guignol illustrations with a small chip to

with a small chip to one top corner

A little too large to be a toothbrush (

Talk about patina

especially the fantastically beautiful patterning representing a traditional Greenland Inuit beaded collar

) Surely inspiration and/or material for all sorts of creative endeavors

Double Faced Hand-carved Folk Art Jig Figure 19th century Guignol illustrations with a small chip toThis is another one that photos don't do justice; it is hard to get proper lighting on the face(s) and body at the same time, but in person the details of the faces are quite clear. And of course that is what makes this one really great the head rotates, allowing it to switch back and forth between two distinct personalities. I take one face as meant to be male (short hair, wide mouth) and the other (curls framing a beatific face with pursed lips)