Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome antique spencerian penmanship 5" x 6 7/8" and

5" x 6 7/8" and in excellent antique condition

Just a little chair

where they functioned as match holders

this one has a dominant color of a heathery gray

Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome antique spencerian penmanship 5" x 6 7/8" andA 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