Boxers in the Ring with Arms Swinging, Mid 20th Century Carved Folk Art Construction

Regular price $150.00

I've got an obsession with representations of boxers, boxing matches, boxing rings...a brutal sport, but also I think a beautiful one, as elemental and also existential as it gets.  I've had a few carved push button boxing toys over the years, but this the first full blown folk art construction of a pair going at it inside a ring. One arm of each of the boxers will move manually, and both arms of the man in silver shirt. Platform, posts, and figures carved of wood with polychrome, and rope for the ropes for the ring!   

7 5/8" x 7 1/4" x 5 1/4" t. Good condition, c. mid 20th c. Found in Maine.