SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade mocha ware cup but void of people and

but void of people and tightly framed this snapshot feels to me particularly poignant in this moment

as well as a few with little windows carved in the side of the egg to allow a peek at the chick inside

the rest on drawing paper

Case measures 3 1/8 x 3 5/8”

much more in tact on one side than the other

SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade mocha ware cup but void of people andAbout as naive an old carved "acrobat" toy as it gets, which is why I really I love it. I learned from a note accompanying this sweet thing that it was published in Eleanor Lakin's 2013 Folk Art for Children: Handmade in America 1760 1940. (Well worth checking out, lots of fabulous things featured alongside this one!) I presume it was the creation of a young "Neal, Fifth Grade," which is written in graphite on one side of the face. Penciled features