SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade spillekins Needs to lean against something

Needs to lean against something in order to stand

28 rounds cut of heavy paper/card

Greenland Inuit I think

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 Needs to lean against somethingAbout 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