I also really love that she looks both like a young girl and an older woman at the same time (with her pencil-drawn gray hair)
) rising from the opening of the shoe
I love these old ring toss toys
14 5/8" l x 7 1/2" t x 7/8" d and in very good structural condition
I’ve been kind of obsessed with antique carved wooden drapery lately
Late 18th Century Primitively Scrimshawed Horn finch I also really love thatThis wonderful thing. In far from perfect condition (I would never have gotten my hands on it otherwise!), but with all sorts of marvelously primitive incised scrimshawed drawings unfolding across its surface, including figures, crosses, snake, lizard, tree and who knows what all. Though it is possible it functioned as a powder horn, I have found some examples with the same sort of carved wooden base that were drinking cups, and there is evidence it