Carved Wood Folk Art Man with Bowler and Graphite Drawn Face bird with fish and the long face is

and the long face is flat on the bottom

I've bought and sold a good handful of 19th century maths and penmanship notebooks now

a small tear/loss at center of right edge

especially in terms of scale and weight

but I have not been able to figure out anything at all about it

Carved Wood Folk Art Man with Bowler and Graphite Drawn Face bird with fish and the long face isThis guy looks to me as if he just rode into town with some schemes up his sleeve or snake oil to sell quite a character! He came out of the same estate as a few other carved figures I'm listing today. A few graphite marks on his chest suggest perhaps his maker planned to do a bit more work on him, but I think he's pretty great as he is. Graphite drawn mustache and brows and a bit of hair, and a bow drawn around the brim of his bowler, too. He's