Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome antique spencerian penmanship ) And then all of

) And then all of this amazing ornament--silver and gold wirework and paper coiling forming ribbons and flowers and flourishes

this one has a dominant color of a heathery gray

with every sample as lovely as the next

seeming like a box adapted in make do fashion to become a boat

with tiny holes down one edge from where it was stitched into a notebook and some staining to one bottom corner

Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome antique spencerian penmanship ) And then all ofA very sweet one, giving me great joy to find, looking in part as if embodying a certain lost ness, but also as if it spreading his arms in readiness of a hug. Very tender, and hugely empathetic, and a bit melancholic, even existential feeling, too. There appear never to have been hands, just these stubs at the ends of the arms, which seems just right for the gesture, and in keeping with the naivete of it all. Purchased from a dealer in my neck of the