Girl with Ball (Looking Ready!) Excellent Vintage Snapshot Photo wooden beaver Just a small thing

Just a small thing

with one eye carved and the other a burl

and I guess the pair of wonderfully snake-like recessed forms at the top represent hooks or perhaps clasps that would have been forged on it

*In one image of one short side

Girl with Ball (Looking Ready!) Excellent Vintage Snapshot Photo wooden beaver Just a small thingI don't always know when I find them, especially with photos, which will become my favorites but the more time I've spent with this one, the more I love it, finding it a wonderfully optimistic summation of life! A ball, or the world itself, captured in mid air, and our girl is poised and ready to smack it and set it aloft again. Feels right for the moment (one hopes!) and just right. 4 7 16" x 3 1 4" and in very good condition.