Fantastic Antique Dancing Doll (Uncle Sam?) with Wonderful Painted Details puzzle cube is attached with copper nails

is attached with copper nails

) I really like the fact the the drawings consume the dedication page --"to my dear little friends"--with a bird

though looking a bit like a old man

with this little piggy looking as if ready to run off to the market

Consisting of 83 woodcut prints

Fantastic Antique Dancing Doll (Uncle Sam?) with Wonderful Painted Details puzzle cube is attached with copper nailsOne of the best faces ever on this guy, in my humble opinion, which looks to have been rendered in watercolor with graphite underneath, and the painted details on his chest and giving a zigzag band to his hat are equally good! My guess is that he was meant to represent Uncle Sam, and I think likely dates to the 1870s or so, when representations of the character had become widely popular. Clearly, with hole in his belly for a dowel, and large, flat