SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade spillekins but certainly great for ambiance

but certainly great for ambiance and reflecting the light

I'd be most inclined to nicely frame this

date to the first half of the 19th century and are scarce--but now this is the third I've turned up

and would also be a great planter itself for an arrangement of creeping succulents

Just the sort of little folk art chair I'm forever looking at dollhouse furniture to find

SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade spillekins but certainly great for ambianceAbout 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