Charming Old Wooden Clothespin Figure with Moving Arms checkerboard pattern your choice

your choice

this piece was purchased from an estate in Newton

with this matte copper colored finish worn away around the edges

1935) has supplied close to 1000 cartoons to “The New Yorker” magazine as well as other publications including Newsweek

Charming Old Wooden Clothespin Figure with Moving Arms checkerboard pattern your choiceSmall, but wonderful! I assume this sweet little doll was made long ago from a wooden clothespin, the sides of which its maker carefully carved out in order to attach by tiny nail two arms that move up and down, and then drew a little face on too. I'd think it has well over a hundred years on it but remains in fine structural shape, with one nail a tiny bit higher than flush on front but still going through to the back, where there is a thin split in