SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade mocha ware cup There is some surface creasing

There is some surface creasing or scratching to the photo that are visible when viewed close up

specifically looking very much like Rachel Feinstein

and there is something about the particular dinged-up cheerfulness of this one particularly that keeps reminding me of the fried chicken chain/front for Gus Fring's meth empire on Breaking Bad

handles hanging down

to Connecticut

SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade mocha ware cup There is some surface creasingAbout 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