Great Old Scrap Wood Dog with Blackest Black, Nice Mend, and Excellent Backside welded iron bug another antique Delft tile

another antique Delft tile

and one very small surface scratch to his hat

and in excellent

much more fretfully

He is certainly quite finely painted and feels to me like a pretty special  little piece--and surely perching him nearby will bring wisdom and luck

Great Old Scrap Wood Dog with Blackest Black, Nice Mend, and Excellent Backside welded iron bug another antique Delft tileWhether apparent or not, I jump on far fewer folk art wooden cutout animals than I once did; I've seen a lot of them by this point, so it takes what I consider a really good one to win me which I think this guy is. With tar like black paint giving him a very excellent face and very strong graphic appeal and his back side painted with equal specificity (and the edges of the wood painted too.) And through the creamy white paint of this body one can see