Perfectly Awkward and Rather Dainty Erotic Folk Art Mechanical Toy very fine school slate and a split in the

and a split in the lid of its original wooden box

the blackened surface would have been achieved through the application of a mineral-rich slip

The set includes 10 printed plates--five of them with shapes in various shades of grey and black

Another fragment

Another lovely antique British watercolor

Perfectly Awkward and Rather Dainty Erotic Folk Art Mechanical Toy very fine school slate and a split in theFeels rather timely, but let's remember, women have teeth:) Considered on its own terms, this is just about my favorite erotic folk art toy I've seen, of a very diminutive scale, with carefully incised detailing for hair and faces on both figures, such that it feels dainty and delicate even while rather graphic and with a quite dramatic range of motion to our thrusting fellow! A piece of trench art I might guess, which fits in the smallest pocket, or