Vintage Painted Folk Art Carving of Colonial Era Figure celluloid vesta and with a super long

and with a super long tail

but which also works for the front

They come in their original green box with cardboard sleeve

The fishing pole has a little give up and down but not a lot

Vintage Painted Folk Art Carving of Colonial Era Figure celluloid vesta and with a super longI believe the hat and outfit on this carved and painted fellow is Colonial era American, and perhaps he is meant to be a Revolutionary soldier. With hands in his pockets and rather relaxed sort of disposition though, he looks to me poised perhaps for other things. I especially love his large, sort of lumpy nose and partially open red painted mouth, and also the sideward cast of his brown eyes, as if keeping an eye on something, or someone, coming