Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child poured brass I have to think it

I have to think it was a mother or a teacher who made this one

I'm listing this antique embroidery on linen pin cushion just as I found it -- stuck full of pins

I haven't been able to determine the date of the book

and then smartly looped through the weave of the basket below

Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child poured brass I have to think itThis is my favorite object I found at Brimfield, which I purchased from an excellent dealer who had it in his personal collection for several decades. Carved from one block of wood, what a sense of deep connection between parent and child it conveys, specific and universal. I love that the parent appears of no specific gender, and I love the faces and ears! on both parent and child. But most of all I love the dangling legs of the baby, draped around