Wonderful Carved Antique Limberjack with Great Face and Boots pewter shell game with black for his beady

with black for his beady eyes and red for the inside of his giant mouth

but no chips

I guess the brilliant blue bits of paper hanging on to the surface are remnants of some sort of label

State Department official Samuel McKinney and subsequently lived and worked all over the world

a poem about the joys of spring

Wonderful Carved Antique Limberjack with Great Face and Boots pewter shell game with black for his beadyA nice old one, with a great patina and wonderfully, individually carved boots still attached, custom made for tapping! Terrific carved face too, with triangular nose and a wide smile, which appears to have been enhanced with graphite, also to give him eyeballs. With hole running all the way through his chest, he was clearly once held up by a dowel, or perhaps a whole armature with platform, in order to make him dance. Now he can be positioned to