Wonderful Carved Figure (Jockey?) with Wool Coat, Painted Cap, Moving Arms and Gripping Hands antique wooden kitchen paddle Each measures 2 1/16" t

Each measures 2 1/16" t x 2" l x 1/2" wide and they are both in excellent shape

from when ashtrays were considered design objects

or a perfect holder for the Victorian calling/compliments cards I just listed

companies began to print the bags with patterns for making dolls and the like--here a needlework pattern on reverse "to occupy little fingers

Wonderful Carved Figure (Jockey?) with Wool Coat, Painted Cap, Moving Arms and Gripping Hands antique wooden kitchen paddle Each measures 2 1/16" tLots of curious carved figures of uncertain origin today. This charmer, in his painted cap and heavy wool knit coat over elegant printed fabric scarf, looks like a jockey to me, though the horse, or carriage, he rode in on is long gone. Wonderful little carved face, with painted beard and mustache, and best of all these very gestural arms, crossing each other to reach in opposite direction (and which also raise and lower some) terminating in what