SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade spillekins for its silhouette and super

for its silhouette and super primitively stitched face for sure

lets me know they were German made

Just the sort of little folk art chair I'm forever looking at dollhouse furniture to find

Greenland Inuit I think

and would also be a great planter itself for an arrangement of creeping succulents

SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade spillekins for its silhouette and superAbout 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