SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs pillowcase "The subject of this sketch

"The subject of this sketch was born April 1st 1880

Most empathetically

Doesn't get much moodier than this one

2 5/8" tall x 3" wide x 4

this exquisitely crafted but brutal object was a sailor's weapon

SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs pillowcase "The subject of this sketchThis frowning fellow is one of a number of wonderful old carved articulated figures today, him straight out of an amazing West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art. For me carved figures like are as close to animate as a handmade thing can be, and I always love the process of photographing them a sort of "getting to know you" experience, through which their very individual personalities (and souls, I would say!) reveal themselves,