Sophisticated Kid Made Cut Paper Abstraction #2, Purple Construction Paper games and points counter together forming what feels a

together forming what feels a but like a wall of defense

I don't much collect decoys

wood with paperboard roofs

but I'd never come across an antique French one like this

with finely done pin prick type decoration on the toe and stocking(

Sophisticated Kid Made Cut Paper Abstraction #2, Purple Construction Paper games and points counter together forming what feels athey struck (strike) me as quite sophisticated things, feeling as much like formal studies by an accomplished modern artist of the early mid 20th century as by the work of children. (Hung on the wall in a museum, I would easily believe this was a sketch in advance of a sculpture done by, say, Hans Arp!) Crisp, elegant, and with the softening fading to the color of the purple construction paper enhancing a sense of timelessness really a very lovely and