Wonderful Carved Antique Limberjack with Great Face and Boots pewter shell game with the Hard-A-Port sailor logo

with the Hard-A-Port sailor logo at center

7 1/4" long x 1" wide x 3/4" deep

and which I'd guess dates to the 1920s or so

State Department official Samuel McKinney and subsequently lived and worked all over the world

Wonderful Carved Antique Limberjack with Great Face and Boots pewter shell game with the Hard-A-Port sailor logoA nice old one, with a great patina and wonderfully, individually carved boots still attached, custom made for tapping! Terrific carved face too, with triangular nose and a wide smile, which appears to have been enhanced with graphite, also to give him eyeballs. With hole running all the way through his chest, he was clearly once held up by a dowel, or perhaps a whole armature with platform, in order to make him dance. Now he can be positioned to