Old Tin Litho Jockey with Yellow Boots carved bone seagull pin and most definitely a really

and most definitely a really wonderful little object

I found a stone carved figure in Maine clearly made by the same person as this one

Initialed at center

appears on the front of this old notebook

who I found a few days ago in New Hampshire

Old Tin Litho Jockey with Yellow Boots carved bone seagull pin and most definitely a reallyI wasn't sure who this guy was but a friend just pointed out that he's surely a jockey, the blue disk in his hand actually his hat, which he is, perhaps victoriously, waving. I love the combination of red shirt, white pants, and tall yellow boots, and the wear and rusting to his surface all over. The sulky I assume he once sat upon is long gone, but he can perch on other things now, and to me, with one arm forever raised, he feels like a cheerful and