Wonderful Old Red Painted Cigar Box Wood Jointed Man tobacco silk quilt dings and scuffs

dings and scuffs

and his archive is housed at Hamilton College

which I feel is the case with this piece

and here with the clearly joyful effort put into detailing the ruffled sleeves

There are two different white paints--most are painted what I would call gallery (or pedestal) white

Wonderful Old Red Painted Cigar Box Wood Jointed Man tobacco silk quilt dings and scuffsThis guy was surely once attached to a string, performing acrobatic acts, but I love him just as his is now, ready to perch somewhere. Hard to beat the carved profile of his face, but the shapes of his arms, legs and especially those feet are pretty great too, and I love the clunky screws and bolts attaching them to his torso and red paint too. I also always love seeing the old cigar box print on the flip sides. Really a charmer! 5 5 8" t x 1 7 8" w x