Marvelous Carved, Polychromed Reclining Nude on Box Top ted cross I found this old carved

I found this old carved pine whimsy the other day in New Hampshire

but it's the simultaneous attention paid to faces and outfits and postures and gestures and hairstyles that endears these to me

What makes them most distinctive and interesting to me--in addition to the elaborate framework he constructed around them--are the backgrounds that set them off

I've become pretty enamored of old wooden trucks and trains (in addition to everything else

I find these old cast iron log splitting cones really beautiful objects

Marvelous Carved, Polychromed Reclining Nude on Box Top ted cross I found this old carvedA stunner in every sense. This nude beauty sleeps atop what was once the lid of a box, making one wonder whether she once had admirers peering up at her from the sides of from whom she wisely took her leave. Wonderfully carved and painted, right down to bright red lips and fingernails. With a hook on the back for hanging, though equally good, if not better, treated as a sculpture to be enjoyed in the round! 6 1 4" l x 3 15 16" w x 1" t. Wood with