Antique Carved, Jointed Figure with Hand-drawn Face and Button Front model train platform but instead in the heel

but instead in the heel

There is a bit of loss the far edge of the sliding piece

which I believe dates from sometime between 1900-1920

and out (up

Pencil and watercolor on natural colored construction paper

Antique Carved, Jointed Figure with Hand-drawn Face and Button Front model train platform but instead in the heelOne can just barely make out an old graphite drawn face of this very old friend, who might once have had hands and feet but I think maybe more likely was a large acrobat squeeze toy, with strings strung through the holes at the ends of his (extra long) arms and legs. Now, hell sit up on his own, with arms situated either in front of, or behind him. Quite a sweet one I think with primitively carved head and torso, buttons drawn down his front, arms and