Fantastic Antique Dancing Doll (Uncle Sam?) with Wonderful Painted Details puzzle cube scattered stains

scattered stains

It measures 4 5/8" tall x 4 1/4" in diameter

Clearly it's a piece of trench art

is attached with copper nails

Consisting of 83 woodcut prints

Fantastic Antique Dancing Doll (Uncle Sam?) with Wonderful Painted Details puzzle cube scattered stainsOne of the best faces ever on this guy, in my humble opinion, which looks to have been rendered in watercolor with graphite underneath, and the painted details on his chest and giving a zigzag band to his hat are equally good! My guess is that he was meant to represent Uncle Sam, and I think likely dates to the 1870s or so, when representations of the character had become widely popular. Clearly, with hole in his belly for a dowel, and large, flat