Old Red Painted Folk Art Pig Cutting Board wooden steps Louis Marx

Louis Marx

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selling for several hundred dollars each--many later editions were to follow

Just marvelous details all the way around

The sampler

Old Red Painted Folk Art Pig Cutting Board wooden steps Louis MarxReally a good one, which feels to me as much like a butcher shop sign as a folk art cutting board made at home, though I believe the latter. Great smiling face and yellow eyelashes, and great old red painted body, which curiously shows darker on the bottom 3 4 of the pig than the top, I presume product of where it was hung or stored, and which I think is all to the good as if too highlight the belly! (The contrast is a bit more pronounced ion photos