Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons I’ve always got an eye

I’ve always got an eye out for very believably bruised pieces

which doesn't jump out but is visible if looking for it

which is welded to a larger hanger (it all reminds me rather of a ski lift) making it quite easy to hang them from a hook on the wall

The reverse shows that linen tape has been used to back a couple of small tears and along a couple of inches of fold line to stabilize--well done and not visible from the front

6 1/4" x 8 3/4" x 3/4"

Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons I’ve always got an eyeThis is my favorite object I found at Brimfield, which I purchased from an excellent dealer who had it in his personal collection for several decades. Carved from one block of wood, what a sense of deep connection between parent and child it conveys, specific and universal. I love that the parent appears of no specific gender, and I love the faces and ears! on both parent and child. But most of all I love the dangling legs of the baby, draped around