Charmingly Crude Early 19th C. Fabric Backed Hollow Cut Folk Art Silhouette folk art pin ups 9 5/8" long x 6

9 5/8" long x 6 1/2" wide x 3/8" deep

so was delighted to finally find this pair in Maine a few days ago

oil on what looks like early masonite to me

A beautiful

but opens and closes no problem

Charmingly Crude Early 19th C. Fabric Backed Hollow Cut Folk Art Silhouette folk art pin ups 9 5/8" long x 6It's the crudeness of this silhouette that makes me really love it, and find it her! very empathetic; no trained traveling silhouette artist or use of a tracing mechanism behind this one, just a homespun effort to render a likeness to best one could I think, and managing to impart her with a lot of character in the process. I opened it up for a closer look, and have documented it as such the silhouette cut from card, with black fabric (looks like a