SOLD Antique Carved Jig Figure with Wonderful Graphite Drawn Face, Never Any Arms, and Dainty Boots! portrait of pigeon and whoever made it had

and whoever made it had a really great eye in addition to investing a great deal of labor and care into every inch of it

Edges torn as evident but well done

Somehow it seems the world would a better place if we all wore paper hats

but also as a embodiment of resistance

SOLD Antique Carved Jig Figure with Wonderful Graphite Drawn Face, Never Any Arms, and Dainty Boots! portrait of pigeon and whoever made it hadThis charmer is one of a handful of old carved articulated figures today, a few of them straight out of a marvelous West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art, and a couple, including this one, found at a show closer to home. When it rains it pours seems like its been forever since I had a good articulated figure, and now a number of them at once. I thought quite a nice thing to list them all at once, as finding the right home for teach of