Fantastic Antique Hand-carved, Gilded Folk Art Dove crayon with a few small dark

with a few small dark marks on the interior of the lip

)  Other than the gray seam/basting tape on the inside of the waist of his paints

and fit neatly into their own little wooden box

one end of which one would put under one's foot while holding the other straight up

Fantastic Antique Hand-carved, Gilded Folk Art Dove crayon with a few small darkI had at first taken this as an eagle, but I am now thinking it must be a dove, looking quite beatific with its wide eyes, smallish beak, and most angelic wings, a symbol of peace and also the Holy Spirit. The examples most similar in manner I have found are 19th century French and French Canadian; this one I found it in an off the beaten path spot in Maine, so perhaps the latter. Based on the holes in its flat back I would think either the topper on