Exceptionally Lovely Antique Carved Bluebird with Tin Wings eskimo The end of the long

The end of the long one is not cleanly cut as the short ones are

-- one could position it to have the dates showing

with a couple of small tears to pages on either side

was adopted in 1851

An absolutely wonderful image I think

Exceptionally Lovely Antique Carved Bluebird with Tin Wings eskimo The end of the longThis bird gets me on every level, and just look at that view of it from the underside, looking rather like a slug with wings! I purchased it from the same dealer as the toy gun I just listed, and have a bit of a feeling that the two were made by the same person, including for the fact that the blue paint looks like it could be the same. Here it appears the blue was painted over an earlier coat of red, I would guess one quickly on the top of the other,