A Unique Folk Art Gesso Pine & Papier-Mâché Half-Size Articulated Figure of a Human Skeleton c.1900-20 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage the book spines with some

the book spines with some small losses and one with some old worm

Shoveler: 9

'Do Not Sit Children On This Barrier' the whole of wooden construction and painted in sky blue and red with yellow text

The ebonised finish is original and there is a nice craquelure to the surface with only small losses with the lacquer worn through to the extremities to the beech frame

though few examples have survived and none of them are dated

A Unique Folk Art Gesso Pine & Papier-Mâché Half-Size Articulated Figure of a Human Skeleton c.1900-20 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage the book spines with someOrigin: English Period: Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 20 Height: 47 Width: 10 Depth: 5 The unique early 20th century folk art half size skeleton, at almost four feet high, having jointed limbs, the whole hand crafted in gesso and papier mch over softwood, for theatrical (puppet), medical or artistic purposes and terminating in a painted knop hanging finial, surviving from the first quarter of twentieth century England. The skeleton is in