SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs pillowcase this exquisitely crafted but brutal

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

Most empathetically

" Some wear as evident

and the pressed leaves and flowers and stems are very well preserved

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

SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs pillowcase this exquisitely crafted but brutalThis 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,