Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome antique spencerian penmanship I bought this box with

I bought this box with three sets of cards inside based on one photo not revealing much

Some toning and staining as evident

5" x 6 7/8" and in excellent antique condition

Just a little chair

with tiny holes down one edge from where it was stitched into a notebook and some staining to one bottom corner

Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome antique spencerian penmanship I bought this box withA very sweet one, giving me great joy to find, looking in part as if embodying a certain lost ness, but also as if it spreading his arms in readiness of a hug. Very tender, and hugely empathetic, and a bit melancholic, even existential feeling, too. There appear never to have been hands, just these stubs at the ends of the arms, which seems just right for the gesture, and in keeping with the naivete of it all. Purchased from a dealer in my neck of the