SOLD Antique Jointed Mannequin Hand with Very Rich Patina antique advertising envelope but I'm very glad it's

but I'm very glad it's been kept safe as it is an early and delicate one

that it is a “Shutter dog”— made to hold a shutter open (“dog” being an Old English term for fastener)

) To my eye there is also a sense of the surreal about it

The wrinkles may steam out some but they don't bother me personally as it has a casualness about it already

This is about as Christmas-y as I will get

SOLD Antique Jointed Mannequin Hand with Very Rich Patina antique advertising envelope but I'm very glad it'sThere are new and recent vintage mannequin hands out there made to look like old ones, but this is a real one that has clearly been around the block, or more likely, around the studio. Mannequins are not my expertise and you may be a better judge that I am (so much variation among them, including from Italian to English to French to American, which is part of what makes them interesting.) But on a little comparison to other examples out there (shape