Endearingly Awkward Dancing Doll with Funny Face, Swinging Arms, and Uneven Length Legs carved drawings based on the deer and

based on the deer and teepee carved into the back of her dark green wrap

the tongue on that little black dog

staring right back at us

This is the second of two decks of lovely antique French Gatteaux playing cards I recently purchased from a seller in France

Endearingly Awkward Dancing Doll with Funny Face, Swinging Arms, and Uneven Length Legs carved drawings based on the deer andThis one looked me in the eye and pleaded to for a third, or ninth life, and I had to listen. Looks like he's been repaired at least once, with wire holding a few joints together, making one leg decisively longer than the other! I have a hunch that his graphite drawn face may have been granted him sometime along the way too. He's an awkward one for sure, but endearing, and can be set in a few different poses or hung by a nail through the hole in his