Wonderful Old Hand-carved, Painted Man with Glasses Black Forest bird This is the first one

This is the first one I've really fallen in love with--tiny (which I always prefer)

maybe French

with a nice subtle sheen

which look pretty much  just like the real things

so best just to hang it then leave it alone

Wonderful Old Hand-carved, Painted Man with Glasses Black Forest bird This is the first oneA charmer of an old carving, with this dapper fellow looking to me as if about to accept an important award, perhaps a Pulitzer, or an Oscar, or the Nobel Prize! As such, he seems especially good company to me and one with whom I might share all of my best ideas! Really wonderfully done, those excellent spectacles best of all, with blue eyes behind them and a terrifically painterly face. 4 7 16" t x 1 1 2" w x 1" d and in excellent condition, 1940s or