Helen's Excellent Halloween Pumpkin Card with Cutout Eyes and Flapping Tongue hair basket or the white painted wooden

or the white painted wooden beard on this great little Santa Claus

I've been really attracted to old photographs of classical sculptures/statues of late

the color of the specimens is rich and each one beautiful

but that is long gone

Helen's Excellent Halloween Pumpkin Card with Cutout Eyes and Flapping Tongue hair basket or the white painted woodenOur Helen made quite an excellent jack o' lantern here, I'd say. And no small effort expended with cuts into the face of the pumpkin just as if carving a real one, and then eyes drawn in graphite and pink tongue partially trimmed on the other side of the fold so as to line up and extend! just right. Excellent!. 5 1 8" x 3 1 4". Earlyish 20th century. Good condition, with some scattered stains, all to the good I think. Graphite and crayon on plain