Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome antique spencerian penmanship where they functioned as match

where they functioned as match holders

with every sample as lovely as the next

Just a little chair

with almost no loss of lacquer

Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome antique spencerian penmanship where they functioned as matchA very sweet one, giving me great joy to find, looking in part as if embodying a certain lost ness, but also as if it spreading his arms in readiness of a hug. Very tender, and hugely empathetic, and a bit melancholic, even existential feeling, too. There appear never to have been hands, just these stubs at the ends of the arms, which seems just right for the gesture, and in keeping with the naivete of it all. Purchased from a dealer in my neck of the