Nice Old Solid Wood Hat Block with Orange Spot (One Split) acrobatic to who it is attributed

to who it is attributed on the back of the frame (with the first and second names reversed) noting that he was born in 1876 in Seneca

Willem de Kooning

with the paint cakes retaining their embossed images--a variety of seashells on their faces

but also for the slouchy red sock

a man blowing a horn

Nice Old Solid Wood Hat Block with Orange Spot (One Split) acrobatic to who it is attributedI see a fair number of old hat blocks around of various sorts and am not often compelled to buy one, but the wood on this one is really beautiful, and its form satisfying like geometric solid blocks, and then this round patch of orange on the top that really makes it for me. There's an old split down one side, but from the other direction it is perfect and really quite a lovely and satisfying thing. 8" t x 6 5 8" diameter at base.