Double Sided Canadian Folk Art Relief Carving: Strongman Victor DeLamarre + Birds and Mountains antique tornado photo and what an excellent face

and what an excellent face

No matter how many sets of these I find

I'm partial to the matte surface and overall patterning on one like this

one of which

Double Sided Canadian Folk Art Relief Carving: Strongman Victor DeLamarre + Birds and Mountains antique tornado photo and what an excellent faceA wonderful portrait of an underdog, and some charming birds, too. Canadian champion strongman Victor Delamarre, portrayed on one side of this painted, relief carved plaque, was a mild mannered, 5 ft. 4" Montreal policeman, who surprised everyone with his strength. Born in 1888, one of 13 children, Delamarre developed much of that strength while working on a farm as a lumberjack, and went on break Louis Cyr's record of pressing 309. 5 pounds. . Here