Wonderful (and Succinct) Old Carved Folk Art Boat Diorama for the vanity I especially love the hearts

I especially love the hearts in the bottom corners and crowns just above them

This is one of new batch of several antique math and geometry notebooks just in--from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them

A charmer of an old folk art limberjack or dancing doll

It is signed on the bottom with what appears to read P

Wonderful (and Succinct) Old Carved Folk Art Boat Diorama for the vanity I especially love the heartsOne sees old three dimensional carved ship "diorama" from time to time sometimes behind glass, sometimes not but this is the first I've seen done in such a succinct manner, with the ship carved in relief in an arched niche, and I think it's quite fabulous. It's a bit hard to tell but it seems it may have all be carved out of the one block of wood with the background painted behind the sails of the ship, which are three dimensional. I love the the feet