Primitive Antique Jig Doll on Platform with Hand Crank animal illustrations to coloring grid patterns

to coloring grid patterns

with an April snowstorm happening here as I write this

made by The Embossing Company in Albany New York

and then a piece of wire through a hole for the horns and a piece of twine for the tail

a headache cure

Primitive Antique Jig Doll on Platform with Hand Crank animal illustrations to coloring grid patternsNice to find one of these old articulated figures still on its armature, and here with a hand crank that can be turned to suspend him forever mid air, or lower him to do a lurching sort of jig. With a very crudely carved face, great old blue paint on his pine body, and the beam that holds him punched right through his belly. Early 20th century American, all original, with just a small loss to one toe and a great immediacy and potent presence to it