Handmade Cutout Wooden Animals, and Little Man! FLT links I don't know a lot

I don't know a lot about the origins of this fantastic basket

both relating to the study of math and writing/penmanship

And then that face

it seems pretty stable at this point

I never get over the loveliness of these old super soft pale horsehair brushes with beautiful long turned wood handles

Handmade Cutout Wooden Animals, and Little Man! FLT links I don't know a lotI love this little flock, perhaps the man with moving arms most of all, but the paint job on the mustard yellow cow with blue eye and cowbell is pretty hard to beat, and the profile of that squirrel! I am not sure what the unpainted one with top hat and cane is (a muskrat?), but think he's great too, and those big pencil drawn spots drawn on the larger horse! What a gang. The man measures 4 1 2" t. The cow is just shy of 5" long. About 3 8" thick. A