Wooden Cutout Dutch Girl with Fantastic Surface 19th century poetry best of all I think

best of all I think this bright white flute and mint green cap

) Things like this make me very happy

I just found this and two other old folding rulers and am completely in love with them

plus a rather Calder-esque form

Nice original brown and red paint

Wooden Cutout Dutch Girl with Fantastic Surface 19th century poetry best of all I thinkThere are definitely a good number of old folk art Dutch girls and boys out there, but I've never seen one with a surface nearly as great as this. It seems maybe a mix of paint and crayon and varnish and I'm not sure what all, but coming together now just right. Two hooks at bottom, I guess once used to hang keys, but which are now a bit deformed twisted, so really she's just her own thing. There is a hole at the center of her hat via which one could