Double Sided Canadian Folk Art Relief Carving: Strongman Victor DeLamarre + Birds and Mountains 19th centiry especially based on the shape

especially based on the shape of the beak

I love the slightly strange shape/position of the red abdomen

Small cards 2 1/2" x 1 3/4"

who also looks a but as if she might be wearing an officer's cap

Signed on the bottoms but I can't make out the signature

Double Sided Canadian Folk Art Relief Carving: Strongman Victor DeLamarre + Birds and Mountains 19th centiry especially based on the shapeA wonderful portrait of an underdog, and some charming birds, too. Canadian champion strongman Victor Delamarre, portrayed on one side of this painted, relief carved plaque, was a mild mannered, 5 ft. 4" Montreal policeman, who surprised everyone with his strength. Born in 1888, one of 13 children, Delamarre developed much of that strength while working on a farm as a lumberjack, and went on break Louis Cyr's record of pressing 309. 5 pounds. . Here