Signed Folk Art Carving of Pointing Hand early american painting with an unglazed area on

with an unglazed area on the underside

but I believe unsigned ones like this were made just a bit earlier

Pages are held together with greenish thread pulled through two small holes in the paper and tied in a bow

unused condition

Signed Folk Art Carving of Pointing Hand early american painting with an unglazed area onI found this carving at an antiques shop in Maine, along with a carved spruce gum box listed separately, and have a bit of feeling that they were done by the same maker. The box held a deck of early 20th century alphabet cards, so I might guess that both this and the box date to around then, though I am not 100% sure. Carved into the underside of the base of the hand is what looks to be "MC11," perhaps the initials of the carver and the year 1911. In