Curious Old Carved Spiral Man kewpie and the irregularities make it

and the irregularities make it really beautiful

but definitely has smeared some

but no notable tears or major stains

framed in two slightly imperfect black ink squares and captioned with handwritten text on either side asking 'Lequel est mon portrait

reminding one of what a big deal a journey across the ocean once was

Curious Old Carved Spiral Man kewpie and the irregularities make itSuch a curious one! And quite an old one, too. I call him spiral man, and think of him as a combination of human and nautilus shell, the latter also called a logarithmic spiral due to its embodiment of the Fibonacci sequenceand so perhaps this little carving holds the underlying logic of the universe in it! (He doesnt look especially happy about it, though!) 5 5 16"x 13 16" w x 1 1 4" d. Carved of pine with a dark old dry wood patina. Some softening