Wonderful, Curious, Finely Carved Carved Partial Face on Wooden Print Block Flip Side, Dog on Reverse enlarging by grid or barking at one another

or barking at one another from some distance

I realized from photos I didn't dust it off especially well

and forever locked (no key

with its shaggy hair given intensive attention

and perhaps the screws could be further tightened

Wonderful, Curious, Finely Carved Carved Partial Face on Wooden Print Block Flip Side, Dog on Reverse enlarging by grid or barking at one anotherA very curious little thing, and one of my very favorite recent finds. Seems to me the side with the hunting dog came first, made as a print block, but then someone decided to carve this face of a child (with marvelous collar!) into the wood on the reverse side not to be printed, but just as a carving. A quite a skillful carver they were, so beautifully done, with the face looking perhaps Native American, or Inuit, to me. A bit mysterious feeling, and