Wonderful Old Hand-carved, Painted Man with Glasses carved sculpture but no one ever seems

but no one ever seems to know anything about them

with the mirror-like surface of the daguerreotype making images like this all the more so

with rays of light lines all around it

I'll be happy just to keep it for myself

etc) as well as religious images

Wonderful Old Hand-carved, Painted Man with Glasses carved sculpture but no one ever seemsA charmer of an old carving, with this dapper fellow looking to me as if about to accept an important award, perhaps a Pulitzer, or an Oscar, or the Nobel Prize! As such, he seems especially good company to me and one with whom I might share all of my best ideas! Really wonderfully done, those excellent spectacles best of all, with blue eyes behind them and a terrifically painterly face. 4 7 16" t x 1 1 2" w x 1" d and in excellent condition, 1940s or