Unusual and Very Fabulous Antique Figural Hand-carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl Samual Gabriel Sons They are wonderful old ones

They are wonderful old ones

) Signed and dated 1817 just below her feet

which is just slightly concave

) and the sign itself is in far from perfect shape

Unusual and Very Fabulous Antique Figural Hand-carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl Samual Gabriel Sons They are wonderful old onesSuch a curious one, purchased from a favorite dealer friend in Maine, the source of many a wonderful thing. She appears to be a pipe bowl, carved entirely of wood (one piece of her torso, one for her lower half) with the bowl of the pipe at her crotch and the stem of the pipe extending from her rear end! She is also hinged at the hips not a lot of give there, but some; I'm guessing that when smoked she rocks a bit to and fro! (One would just needs a