SOLD Antique Carved Folk Art Animals and Rider iron hearts doormat most of them pretty fussy

most of them pretty fussy

A stern school mistress she seems to be

Tears and stains as evident

with this this little bird

SOLD Antique Carved Folk Art Animals and Rider iron hearts doormat most of them pretty fussyLove at first sight with this flock, purchased from a New England dealer at one of the New Hampshire shows earlier this month. While they bear some resemblance in manner to antique German Erzgebirge animals, I am pretty certain these are American, late 19th c. or so. Detail photos show how marvelous the figure is with a very primitively painted (and I think super expressive) face, small mop of hair, and one carved arm, bent at the elbow, attached by