Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf Suda I love the alternating brown

I love the alternating brown and black against the bright white

On the underside is a metal plate which allows it to stay upright on the water (and it does indeed float)

though as the feet of two of the boots (one per figure) are missing

or at the corner of the desk

comes from Greek mythology (and in fact I purchased this from a seller in Greece)

Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf Suda I love the alternating brownI haven't totally figured out why the image of a Dutch boy in this basic pose was so popular in the earlyish 20th century, but I've had several postcards in the shop featuring the same basic figure, and then here he was again on this cutout. What I really love about each, though, are the specific details and adaptations applied by the maker this one, bundled up in scarf and hat and with hands buried in pockets, I have to think was made sometime in the