Wonderful Folk Art Squirrel Doorstop in Gorgeously Alligatored Green Paint Sehr Feine Aufschlagkarten to my eye making this

to my eye making this young man seem a combination of sensitive and curious and serious and studious as also as if trying hard to appear confident and self-possessed but really a bit shy and insecture

on the day I decided to launch Critical Eye

and not an especially cheerful one I think

10 1/2" t x 5" w x 3/4" thick

Wonderful Folk Art Squirrel Doorstop in Gorgeously Alligatored Green Paint Sehr Feine Aufschlagkarten to my eye making thisI don't think I've ever seen a better squirrel silhouette than this one, holding I assume an acorn in its paws, or one clad in a better coat of paint than this green, which has alligatored to total perfection. Definitely this is an early one as far as American folk art wooden doorstops go; based on the nails and paint and the monochrome, I would think 19th c. Really a beautiful thing. 7 1 2" t x 5 1 8" w x 7" d and in very good aged condition, stable