Old Carved Wooden Face with Rich Patina (Including Nailed Repair and Worm Holes) folk art baseball (Is there a child there

(Is there a child there

made by Flash Chemical Co

which feel more like tabletop sculptures than little carvings

which also produced the Color Cubes I love so much--and the blue and white star blocks and yellow stacking disks inside are pretty great looking too

18" x 7 1/8" x 3/4

Old Carved Wooden Face with Rich Patina (Including Nailed Repair and Worm Holes) folk art baseball (Is there a child thereI don't know anything about the history of one, though it very much has the feeling of a death mask, and I find the carved face very beautiful. It appears to be very old, with worm trails visible across the flattened face of the nose, and on the flat back side, and an old repaired split along one side, joined by iron nails that have beautifully bled. It's the sensitively carved lips I find most beautiful, just very slightly open, as if getting ready