Double Faced Hand-carved Folk Art Jig Figure 19th century Guignol illustrations especially the fantastically beautiful patterning

especially the fantastically beautiful patterning representing a traditional Greenland Inuit beaded collar

and another graphite drawing on reverse

with a small chip to one top corner

soaped brush and straight razor in hand

Double Faced Hand-carved Folk Art Jig Figure 19th century Guignol illustrations especially the fantastically beautiful patterningThis is another one that photos don't do justice; it is hard to get proper lighting on the face(s) and body at the same time, but in person the details of the faces are quite clear. And of course that is what makes this one really great the head rotates, allowing it to switch back and forth between two distinct personalities. I take one face as meant to be male (short hair, wide mouth) and the other (curls framing a beatific face with pursed lips)