Miniature Antique Oil on Canvas Cow Painting in Silhouette Frame antique scabbard Everything about this homely monkey

Everything about this homely monkey hand puppet seems just to cry out "love me

with two red Christmas lights still inside

having lost the toe of one shoe over what I’d think is 125 years at least

5 3/4" across with handles

Miniature Antique Oil on Canvas Cow Painting in Silhouette Frame antique scabbard Everything about this homely monkeyA bit of a curious one, which I found in Vermont, and took out of the frame with in order to get around the glare while photographing it, but also to understand it better! Oil on canvas, it looks to me as if it was cut out from a larger painting, but it has definitely lived in this 19th c silhouette type frame for quite a long time. What makes me love it especially is how much someone clearly very much prized this reddish brown cow, which looks to me