Helen's Excellent Halloween Pumpkin Card with Cutout Eyes and Flapping Tongue hair basket but that is long gone

but that is long gone

I think the wood is walnut

though whether the remains of a once larger whimsy or some other sort of crown of thorns construction

or the white painted wooden beard on this great little Santa Claus

I'm forever on the hunt for old boxes of geometric solids

Helen's Excellent Halloween Pumpkin Card with Cutout Eyes and Flapping Tongue hair basket but that is long goneOur Helen made quite an excellent jack o' lantern here, I'd say. And no small effort expended with cuts into the face of the pumpkin just as if carving a real one, and then eyes drawn in graphite and pink tongue partially trimmed on the other side of the fold so as to line up and extend! just right. Excellent!. 5 1 8" x 3 1 4". Earlyish 20th century. Good condition, with some scattered stains, all to the good I think. Graphite and crayon on plain