Antique Relief Carved Panel with Portrait in Profile handmade houses they lived in Sugarcreek Ohio)

they lived in Sugarcreek Ohio) and that three years later he was still celebrating her birth--and/or maybe it just took him that long to get around to it

and the font on the capital letters

and the vine-like white stitching around the perimeter and on the hanging loop

I just can't resist naive floral watercolors like this one

Antique Relief Carved Panel with Portrait in Profile handmade houses they lived in Sugarcreek Ohio)I found this in Vermont but believe its origins are European, and my guess would be French, perhaps portraying an explorer of distant lands, with what I take for mountains or the edges of landmasses at the corners. Or, maybe, in his finery, he's no less than a king, ruling lands near and far. Whatever the case, I think the panel is quite wonderfully carved, and quite a character he is with that long mane and mustache and chin up profile making me