Vintage Painted Folk Art Carving of Colonial Era Figure celluloid vesta The handle is perfectly worn

The handle is perfectly worn and weathered

they created their work for many years in one corner of their living room

and this is a beauty—as simple and honest as can be

They come in their original green box with cardboard sleeve

Perhaps Latin or South American

Vintage Painted Folk Art Carving of Colonial Era Figure celluloid vesta The handle is perfectly wornI believe the hat and outfit on this carved and painted fellow is Colonial era American, and perhaps he is meant to be a Revolutionary soldier. With hands in his pockets and rather relaxed sort of disposition though, he looks to me poised perhaps for other things. I especially love his large, sort of lumpy nose and partially open red painted mouth, and also the sideward cast of his brown eyes, as if keeping an eye on something, or someone, coming