Sweet Reading Monkey, Hand-carved Soapstone and Marble Bookend treenware cup I haven't been able to

I haven't been able to figure out the maker of these cards

" There was a handwritten attribution on the back of the matte on which this was mounted

from the pink cheeks and detailed bib of the little girl to

Each measures 2 1/4" tall x 1 3/8" wide

perhaps of Bangor Maine (

Sweet Reading Monkey, Hand-carved Soapstone and Marble Bookend treenware cup I haven't been able toA fun one, which I do believe has a good amount of age to, and with a really great face on this monkey. And there are grids carved into the pages of his open book, as if he might be reviewing a ledger of accounts! There seems to be a fairly long tradition of carved and cast monkeys reading books, ranging from all over Asia to Italy and beyond. This oneclearly hand carved as there are carved marks all over himis the folkiest Ive seen among them for