Girl with Ball (Looking Ready!) Excellent Vintage Snapshot Photo wooden beaver Shows very nicely

Shows very nicely

and seem to be just  a hair larger in size than later iterations

*In one image of one short side

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

Girl with Ball (Looking Ready!) Excellent Vintage Snapshot Photo wooden beaver Shows very nicelyI 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.