Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome antique spencerian penmanship where they functioned as match

where they functioned as match holders

Some toning and staining as evident

this one has a dominant color of a heathery gray

I bought this box with three sets of cards inside based on one photo not revealing much

Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome antique spencerian penmanship where they functioned as matchA very sweet one, giving me great joy to find, looking in part as if embodying a certain lost ness, but also as if it spreading his arms in readiness of a hug. Very tender, and hugely empathetic, and a bit melancholic, even existential feeling, too. There appear never to have been hands, just these stubs at the ends of the arms, which seems just right for the gesture, and in keeping with the naivete of it all. Purchased from a dealer in my neck of the