Wonderful Carved Antique Limberjack with Great Face and Boots e.w. Deming bear sculpture There is a small split

There is a small split on one back hoof

with a dark cardboard backing

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I purchased this one especially for the layers of text and doodles on the inside covers and first and last pages

Signed “Richard N

Wonderful Carved Antique Limberjack with Great Face and Boots e.w. Deming bear sculpture There is a small splitA nice old one, with a great patina and wonderfully, individually carved boots still attached, custom made for tapping! Terrific carved face too, with triangular nose and a wide smile, which appears to have been enhanced with graphite, also to give him eyeballs. With hole running all the way through his chest, he was clearly once held up by a dowel, or perhaps a whole armature with platform, in order to make him dance. Now he can be positioned to