SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade mocha ware cup I just love her

I just love her

and there is something about the particular dinged-up cheerfulness of this one particularly that keeps reminding me of the fried chicken chain/front for Gus Fring's meth empire on Breaking Bad

but void of people and tightly framed this snapshot feels to me particularly poignant in this moment

the rest on drawing paper

SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade mocha ware cup I just love herAbout as naive an old carved "acrobat" toy as it gets, which is why I really I love it. I learned from a note accompanying this sweet thing that it was published in Eleanor Lakin's 2013 Folk Art for Children: Handmade in America 1760 1940. (Well worth checking out, lots of fabulous things featured alongside this one!) I presume it was the creation of a young "Neal, Fifth Grade," which is written in graphite on one side of the face. Penciled features