Smiling Croquet Ball Headed Folk Art Man creamer and sugar bowl There is little dust inside

There is little dust inside the "arms" and general light wear

typically it seems it was the practice to trade in order to have a variety

It is an early one

but I'm invariably smitten with the naive watercolors and ink drawings and cut paper love tokens of that decade

Smiling Croquet Ball Headed Folk Art Man creamer and sugar bowl There is little dust insideJust a happy one, made it looks to me of a croquet bocce ball for the head and I'm not sure what for the body, but surely something repurposed from an earlier use. With black painted features on the face and buttons down the front, plus red eyeballs. Stands up on its own, and would make a pretty great knock down to lob a ball at, which may have been the intent. 8 tall. Sold and sturdy, I'd guess pretty much indestructible, mid 20th c. or so, with nice