SOLD Antique Carved Jig Figure with Wonderful Graphite Drawn Face, Never Any Arms, and Dainty Boots! antique Indian box with stars in between each

with stars in between each Roman numeral and sun at the center

Year 1794 was trouble with an insurrection

but this week (couple of weeks) I found two that won me over--and this one I'm very very tempted to keep for myself

and have had an eye out for another ever since

many of them insanely elaborate

SOLD Antique Carved Jig Figure with Wonderful Graphite Drawn Face, Never Any Arms, and Dainty Boots! antique Indian box with stars in between eachThis charmer is one of a handful of old carved articulated figures today, a few of them straight out of a marvelous West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art, and a couple, including this one, found at a show closer to home. When it rains it pours seems like its been forever since I had a good articulated figure, and now a number of them at once. I thought quite a nice thing to list them all at once, as finding the right home for teach of