Fantastic Antique Dancing Doll (Uncle Sam?) with Wonderful Painted Details folk art boot with surface patina (including some

with surface patina (including some grime that could be cleaned off though I wouldn't touch it) and what feels like some softening to its edges from handling

but it seems possible from that that it could be French

The box is light in weight

so I won't even try to get into them here

Fantastic Antique Dancing Doll (Uncle Sam?) with Wonderful Painted Details folk art boot with surface patina (including someOne 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