SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade mocha ware cup as well as a few

as well as a few with little windows carved in the side of the egg to allow a peek at the chick inside

much more in tact on one side than the other

to Connecticut

the rest on drawing paper

specifically looking very much like Rachel Feinstein

SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade mocha ware cup as well as a fewAbout as naive an old carved "acrobat" toy as it gets, which is why I really I love it. I learned from a note accompanying this sweet thing that it was published in Eleanor Lakin's 2013 Folk Art for Children: Handmade in America 1760 1940. (Well worth checking out, lots of fabulous things featured alongside this one!) I presume it was the creation of a young "Neal, Fifth Grade," which is written in graphite on one side of the face. Penciled features