Beaming Boy with Christmas Tree, Lionel Train, Diversely Populated Putz Village paint box with palette round headed steel nails for

round headed steel nails for eyes on the angular head

including perhaps inspiring some games of one's own invention

Carved of pine I believe and would guess mid 20th century or so

When I first saw him I immediately associated the black painted plaque he is mounted to as looking like a crescent moon

Beaming Boy with Christmas Tree, Lionel Train, Diversely Populated Putz Village paint box with palette round headed steel nails forHe looks like the cat who swallowed the canary, but I think it is just pure Christmas bliss. Which one understands look at the wonderland under that tree! I just love him popping up from his world of holiday delight to be captured in the frame, and am happy every time I look at him. 3 7 16" x 2 1 2", good condition. c. 1950s or so I believe.