Fabulous Antique Darner with Painted Face mohair teddy bear A little paint loss along

A little paint loss along the left edge in addition to stains along the right edge and over the water

I presume featuring its maker

I also really like the  make shift quality of the set up

but overall good condition with no notable dings or other issues

) They wrote and travelled extensively promoting the "Visual Training Technique

Fabulous Antique Darner with Painted Face mohair teddy bear A little paint loss alongI think the face painted long ago on this old darner is just fantastic feeling as if hovering in a sort of liminal zone between person and ghost, male and female, happy and sad, etc. And that marvelous old creamy white paint, with a bit of red on the cheeks, with what looks to be a fingerprint preserved for posterity in the dab at right. To my eye just a fabulous thing in all regards, which made my heart skip a beat when I spotted it an instant sense