Old Carved Wooden Face with Rich Patina (Including Nailed Repair and Worm Holes) folk art baseball Watercolor/gouache on paper or card

Watercolor/gouache on paper or card

made by Flash Chemical Co

then just went back to the seller to scoop up a handful more

which also produced the Color Cubes I love so much--and the blue and white star blocks and yellow stacking disks inside are pretty great looking too

For me of course it's all about this creature

Old Carved Wooden Face with Rich Patina (Including Nailed Repair and Worm Holes) folk art baseball Watercolor/gouache on paper or cardI don't know anything about the history of one, though it very much has the feeling of a death mask, and I find the carved face very beautiful. It appears to be very old, with worm trails visible across the flattened face of the nose, and on the flat back side, and an old repaired split along one side, joined by iron nails that have beautifully bled. It's the sensitively carved lips I find most beautiful, just very slightly open, as if getting ready