Wonderful Carved Folk Art Village by Howard Gilman, South Stratford, VT victorian mourning is justifiably signed on the

is justifiably signed on the back: Blanche Wood (what a name

handle measures 1" across

with a skeletal shaped head with outlined eyes inverse to a smiling

matched absolutely perfectly with a body stitched together from three different striped cotton fabrics

This one made it through untouched and may be my favorite of the lot

Wonderful Carved Folk Art Village by Howard Gilman, South Stratford, VT victorian mourning is justifiably signed on theI've found definitive dates for the Howard Gilman (1894 1979) of South Stratford, Vermont, who made these and stamped each one on the underside, but that's about it. I sure appreciate the love and labor and detail he put into these small wooden structures, though, which include a varied series of houses all with chimneys and most with log piles arranged in one configuration or another as well as a church, a covered bridge, a barn with silo, and a