Wonderful, Curious, Finely Carved Carved Partial Face on Wooden Print Block Flip Side, Dog on Reverse enlarging by grid Signed by a Linda Hyda

Signed by a Linda Hyda and dating to the 1930s-1940s

and which I am listing individually

I realized from photos I didn't dust it off especially well

with light general wear and some loss to the backing fabric just at the very center

Wonderful, Curious, Finely Carved Carved Partial Face on Wooden Print Block Flip Side, Dog on Reverse enlarging by grid Signed by a Linda HydaA 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