Carved Articulated Folk Art Figure with Tin Helmet wooden bottle case Certainly useful for the painter's

Certainly useful for the painter's among us

There are beautiful dovetailed corners on all sides of the box and on the corners of the drawers

3 1/4" x 2 1/16"

I'm guessing it likely once served a function rather than being a whimsy of sorts

I'm not much of a gambler

Carved Articulated Folk Art Figure with Tin Helmet wooden bottle case Certainly useful for the painter'sI'd have to guess WWI on this guy, who I take for a soldier with a small bowl on his head for a make do helmet, and it would not surprise me if he was actually carved in the trenches. He was constructed as a jig figure, to be held up and danced on a platform, as his legs move backward but not forward at his knees. I really love his geometric facial features, carved in relief and colored orange, which give his a bit of a Mr. Potato Head aspect, while