Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) bunch of antique marbles And I have not been

And I have not been able to find another like him out there anywhere

there are a few small chips and a slightly larger chip at the right bottom corner

I particularly like them opened all the way out and around again so that the knees knock and toes face

patterns fit into a larger geometric order

lid comes off easily and closes tight

Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) bunch of antique marbles And I have not beenI watched this one recently come and go in at auction as part of the late dealer collector Matt King's estate, one in a lot of several objects. (With most everything fetching prices way beyond me, I gave up.). But then this little whimsy showed up elsewhere (I guess the buyer bought the lot for something else in it) so I grabbed it. How that marble got inside is a bit less of a mystery than I thought (one short end shows a diagonal cut, so the wood