Fantastic Antique Dancing Doll (Uncle Sam?) with Wonderful Painted Details folk art boot The box is light in

The box is light in weight

once one stops taking care with their appearance

but it seems possible from that that it could be French

with its dramatically twisting handle

Fantastic Antique Dancing Doll (Uncle Sam?) with Wonderful Painted Details folk art boot The box is light inOne of the best faces ever on this guy, in my humble opinion, which looks to have been rendered in watercolor with graphite underneath, and the painted details on his chest and giving a zigzag band to his hat are equally good! My guess is that he was meant to represent Uncle Sam, and I think likely dates to the 1870s or so, when representations of the character had become widely popular. Clearly, with hole in his belly for a dowel, and large, flat