Antique Cigar Box Wood Jointed Figure with Hand-drawn Face and One Leg Lost outdoor planter and who doesn't know someone

and who doesn't know someone who could use a little recognition of their merits

It is amazing how much pleasure and satisfaction on can derive from arranging and re-arranging a set of painted wooden blocks

It's an antique handmade needle book

and with what appear to be black glass beads for the eyes

little girl

Antique Cigar Box Wood Jointed Figure with Hand-drawn Face and One Leg Lost outdoor planter and who doesn't know someoneThe more time I spend with this jointed figure, crafted I'd think a century and a few decades ago from cigar box scraps, the more I love it and actually even more so I think for it's missing leg, the absence of which to me at least makes it's gestures feel rather more poignant. I especially love the effect of the old labels on the wood, very worn in some areas and not much in others, making for wonderful painterly surfaces. Plus a great pencil drawn