SOLD Antique Carved Jig Figure with Wonderful Graphite Drawn Face, Never Any Arms, and Dainty Boots! mid-century ribbed planter with three of the cards

with three of the cards showing railway signals to be read at a distance of 20 feet--as these were commonly used for testing the vision of train conductors/railway workers

The stripe sides of the blocks are raised (stepped)

but these are really gorgeous

5” diameter

I habitually open old books in hopes of finding ones like this

SOLD Antique Carved Jig Figure with Wonderful Graphite Drawn Face, Never Any Arms, and Dainty Boots! mid-century ribbed planter with three of the cardsThis charmer is one of a handful of old carved articulated figures today, a few of them straight out of a marvelous West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art, and a couple, including this one, found at a show closer to home. When it rains it pours seems like its been forever since I had a good articulated figure, and now a number of them at once. I thought quite a nice thing to list them all at once, as finding the right home for teach of