Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf Suda in addition to a smaller

in addition to a smaller board for another game

though as the feet of two of the boots (one per figure) are missing

which I also could not resist

it is truly a beautiful thing

Large Old Painted Wooden Cutout Dutch Boy with Scarf Suda in addition to a smallerI haven't totally figured out why the image of a Dutch boy in this basic pose was so popular in the earlyish 20th century, but I've had several postcards in the shop featuring the same basic figure, and then here he was again on this cutout. What I really love about each, though, are the specific details and adaptations applied by the maker this one, bundled up in scarf and hat and with hands buried in pockets, I have to think was made sometime in the