Wonderful Old Hand-carved, Painted Man with Glasses Black Forest bird maybe French

maybe French

I really love the painting on this skinny penguin

This is the first one I've really fallen in love with--tiny (which I always prefer)

with a nice subtle sheen

Wonderful Old Hand-carved, Painted Man with Glasses Black Forest bird maybe FrenchA charmer of an old carving, with this dapper fellow looking to me as if about to accept an important award, perhaps a Pulitzer, or an Oscar, or the Nobel Prize! As such, he seems especially good company to me and one with whom I might share all of my best ideas! Really wonderfully done, those excellent spectacles best of all, with blue eyes behind them and a terrifically painterly face. 4 7 16" t x 1 1 2" w x 1" d and in excellent condition, 1940s or