Double Sided Canadian Folk Art Relief Carving: Strongman Victor DeLamarre + Birds and Mountains black with white dots I really love the silhouette

I really love the silhouette of the dove on this early folk art soldered cookie cutter

with some aging to the surface but very little loss of the litho at all

5 1/8" t x 2" w x 3" d

The tilt is the product of using the natural curve of the antler bone

equally in terms of form and fantastically aged surface

Double Sided Canadian Folk Art Relief Carving: Strongman Victor DeLamarre + Birds and Mountains black with white dots I really love the silhouetteA wonderful portrait of an underdog, and some charming birds, too. Canadian champion strongman Victor Delamarre, portrayed on one side of this painted, relief carved plaque, was a mild mannered, 5 ft. 4" Montreal policeman, who surprised everyone with his strength. Born in 1888, one of 13 children, Delamarre developed much of that strength while working on a farm as a lumberjack, and went on break Louis Cyr's record of pressing 309. 5 pounds. . Here