SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade mocha ware cup the rest on drawing paper

the rest on drawing paper

and features a pretty charming angel-winged piggy declaring: "I want to be an angel

but void of people and tightly framed this snapshot feels to me particularly poignant in this moment

Case measures 3 1/8 x 3 5/8”

SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade mocha ware cup the rest on drawing paperAbout as naive an old carved "acrobat" toy as it gets, which is why I really I love it. I learned from a note accompanying this sweet thing that it was published in Eleanor Lakin's 2013 Folk Art for Children: Handmade in America 1760 1940. (Well worth checking out, lots of fabulous things featured alongside this one!) I presume it was the creation of a young "Neal, Fifth Grade," which is written in graphite on one side of the face. Penciled features