Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! antique carved man 4 1/8" l x 3

4 1/8" l x 3 1/2" w x 2" t when closed

handmade in Russia (in Moscow I believe) in the early 1960s

with the flap at top catching the nails around the perimeter as it goes

Dated 1887 at upper right

but then it was a delight to discover a few small drawings and crayon coloring on some of the geometric shapes scattered across its pages

Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! antique carved man 4 1/8" l x 3If ever there were an empathetic eagle, I think this may one himsquawking very loudly at me to bring him home! I assume made by a kid in art class, though perhaps by a folk artist with a lot of heart, hes got a brilliant humanity, with these black painted eyes with deep holes for the pupils at their centers, and then exuberantly incised lines for feathers all over. Perfectly painted gold with, rather inexplicably, a slightly metallic blue around his