Wonderful, Curious, Finely Carved Carved Partial Face on Wooden Print Block Flip Side, Dog on Reverse vintage illustration with another collaged bit on

with another collaged bit on reverse

So lovely and special feeling

" Feels so open and exposed

and then a piece of wire through a hole for the horns and a piece of twine for the tail

which is a bit hard to read but it looks to me that the first name was Charles

Wonderful, Curious, Finely Carved Carved Partial Face on Wooden Print Block Flip Side, Dog on Reverse vintage illustration with another collaged bit onA very curious little thing, and one of my very favorite recent finds. Seems to me the side with the hunting dog came first, made as a print block, but then someone decided to carve this face of a child (with marvelous collar!) into the wood on the reverse side not to be printed, but just as a carving. A quite a skillful carver they were, so beautifully done, with the face looking perhaps Native American, or Inuit, to me. A bit mysterious feeling, and