Figurehead-like Carved Bust, Woman with Wild Hair horn snuff box which made me think about

which made me think about the various forms of "sitting service" this sign might point toward

Paper size 20 1/8" x 13"

The surface shows some a little rusting but mostly just darkening with a age and use

and both done on watermarked laid paper

Figurehead-like Carved Bust, Woman with Wild Hair horn snuff box which made me think aboutAnother one found this week in Maine, and this carved bust of a woman with thick head of seemingly wind blown hair looks a lot like the figurehead at the bow of a ship to me. (It thus seems right that she might have taken a bump to the nose at some point along the way!) Well carved, making great use of the grain of the wood, which adds to a sense of dynamism, as if she's pushing her way through the world, with a wonderful sort of wildness and