Wonderful, Curious, Finely Carved Carved Partial Face on Wooden Print Block Flip Side, Dog on Reverse antique action figure which is divided into sections

which is divided into sections to separate each size of comb

Somehow it keeps making me think of Frank Lloyd Wright--maybe it’s the falling water

I'm not very knowledgable about early aviation

Clearly he was made with a great deal of love

Albumen print mounted to card

Wonderful, Curious, Finely Carved Carved Partial Face on Wooden Print Block Flip Side, Dog on Reverse antique action figure which is divided into sectionsA 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