Sweet Reading Monkey, Hand-carved Soapstone and Marble Bookend Noah Nowdlak Inuit art I purchased this piece from

I purchased this piece from a very fine consignment/antiques shop just outside of Boston

just about a perfect thing

a good old utilitarian steel LEFT sign

I don't buy much online as I really prefer venturing out in the real world and seeing what I can find (plus I like to touch things

pictured in details--4 photos of the same black from all sides

Sweet Reading Monkey, Hand-carved Soapstone and Marble Bookend Noah Nowdlak Inuit art I purchased this piece fromA fun one, which I do believe has a good amount of age to, and with a really great face on this monkey. And there are grids carved into the pages of his open book, as if he might be reviewing a ledger of accounts! There seems to be a fairly long tradition of carved and cast monkeys reading books, ranging from all over Asia to Italy and beyond. This oneclearly hand carved as there are carved marks all over himis the folkiest Ive seen among them for