Sculpted Stoneware Pottery Bust of Literary Looking Gentleman leaded glass The hinges are well secure

The hinges are well secure and the interior clean

these signs of age add to the appeal of this piece

Maybe it is just how grandly and dramatically it captures this moment of reunion--one could surely write a novel inspired by it

My guess is that this piece dates to the second half of the 19th century--based both upon looking at a lot of other wooden pull toys

but it could be treated with a little scratch cover)

Sculpted Stoneware Pottery Bust of Literary Looking Gentleman leaded glass The hinges are well secureI feel like I should recognize this face. Walt Whitman, perhaps? Certainly he looks like a literary sort of fellow; if he had a body, surely he would be holding a book, and maybe a pen, too! As such, a pretty perfect piece for the bookshelf, and plenty heavy to serve as a bookend at the same time. He's quite nicely sculpted of a warm, deep brown coarse stoneware, and hollow on the interior, with felt pads added at some point around the edge. I can't