Naughty Old Carved Folk Art Man in Black Coat and Hat low relief design 5" tall x 5

5" tall x 5

I think it's pretty good

Very good condition and structurally very sound

this is the first I've seen made almost entirely using one brand of silks

Use it as a little vase (I would love it filled with lily of the valley)

Naughty Old Carved Folk Art Man in Black Coat and Hat low relief design 5" tall x 5One sees these old carved figures around now and then, with hidden pop up phalluses, but I don't think I've seen another I like quite as much as this one, whose black hat and coat and smiling, almost snowman looking face simultaneously belies and perfectly foreshadows what's in store when one pulls him apart! I can't help but think of him as a portrayal of righteous hypocrisy perhaps representing a puritanical late 17th century minister crying