Much Weathered Wooden Man with Hat swedish souvenir dating to the 1930s or

dating to the 1930s or so and marked made in Russian on the underside of the base

There are a couple of different artists named Eileen Ryan out there

but I can't find another anywhere with this one)

structurally super sound

The text that follows the image in Hood's book begins: "COME O ER THE SEA

Much Weathered Wooden Man with Hat swedish souvenir dating to the 1930s orThis guy sure seems to me as if he always existed as if he just washed up on the shore one day fully (or almost fully) formed. Hes definitely been around, I presume losing the lower half of one leg along the way. The wood has the appearance of driftwood, but Im really not sure if thats what he was made of or if hes just weathered many a storm. In any event, to my sensibility quite a wonderful, highly empathetic character, pretty impossible not to want