Sweet and Colorful Antique Cigar Box Wood Jointed Acrobat on Long Post abalone at the New Hampshire Antiques

at the New Hampshire Antiques Show and felt--feel--like I was really lucky to get

who wears the same silver jewelry all of the time

dipped in white slip and then hand-painted--ivery much n the manner of the work of famous father and son Mexican folk artists Aurelio and Francisco Flores from Izúcar de Matamoros

These I think are renderings of pre- or just hatched snakes of some sort

Sweet and Colorful Antique Cigar Box Wood Jointed Acrobat on Long Post abalone at the New Hampshire AntiquesI really love old folk art acrobat toys, but manage to restrain myself most of the time no way on this one though. Just the best silhouette and proportions on this figure, and the best found color and pattern from the scrap cigar box wood which was augmented simply by giving him a green painted boot on one side, and graphite drawn eyes and brows on both. Plus "Bouquet"! On a very long post with sliding handle, which is what makes him move up down and