Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons I especially love the loss

I especially love the loss of paint on the face of this one

to me his face has a bit of a Spanish Colonial feel

The reverse shows that linen tape has been used to back a couple of small tears and along a couple of inches of fold line to stabilize--well done and not visible from the front

and made even better by the fabric framing her face

Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child lock and key buttons I especially love the lossThis is my favorite object I found at Brimfield, which I purchased from an excellent dealer who had it in his personal collection for several decades. Carved from one block of wood, what a sense of deep connection between parent and child it conveys, specific and universal. I love that the parent appears of no specific gender, and I love the faces and ears! on both parent and child. But most of all I love the dangling legs of the baby, draped around