Brilliantly Hinged Old Carved Folk Art Man Girard Railroad Handcar Marthe is written at the

Marthe is written at the bottom right corner and initialed MT at left

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She stands squarely on her base

signed on the the bottom "Lutrell Studio

The boxes closes tightly and is in good overall condition

Brilliantly Hinged Old Carved Folk Art Man Girard Railroad Handcar Marthe is written at theSuch a fabulous fellow, to me looking like a bit professorial, and unusually and quite brilliantly hinged at the waist, which makes it easy to take a seat! It looks like he once had arms and surely feet, too, but I think he's just as well without them, such that one only needs to negotiate one moving part! Wonderfully carved head with beak like nose and ears, and what I believe was a combination of ink and graphite drawing the hair, mustache, eyes and