Wonderful, Curious, Finely Carved Carved Partial Face on Wooden Print Block Flip Side, Dog on Reverse enlarging by grid Signed by a Linda Hyda

Signed by a Linda Hyda and dating to the 1930s-1940s

but it will hold in position

and forever locked (no key

the first drawing shows some staining

I realized from photos I didn't dust it off especially well

Wonderful, Curious, Finely Carved Carved Partial Face on Wooden Print Block Flip Side, Dog on Reverse enlarging by grid Signed by a Linda HydaA very curious little thing, and one of my very favorite recent finds. Seems to me the side with the hunting dog came first, made as a print block, but then someone decided to carve this face of a child (with marvelous collar!) into the wood on the reverse side not to be printed, but just as a carving. A quite a skillful carver they were, so beautifully done, with the face looking perhaps Native American, or Inuit, to me. A bit mysterious feeling, and