Unusual and Very Fabulous Antique Figural Hand-carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl Samual Gabriel Sons with no stains whatsoever that

with no stains whatsoever that I can see and fringe in perfect shape

) Signed and dated 1817 just below her feet

who died in 2006) on reverse

which is just slightly concave

7 3/4" wide x 6 3/8" tall and perfectly aged

Unusual and Very Fabulous Antique Figural Hand-carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl Samual Gabriel Sons with no stains whatsoever thatSuch a curious one, purchased from a favorite dealer friend in Maine, the source of many a wonderful thing. She appears to be a pipe bowl, carved entirely of wood (one piece of her torso, one for her lower half) with the bowl of the pipe at her crotch and the stem of the pipe extending from her rear end! She is also hinged at the hips not a lot of give there, but some; I'm guessing that when smoked she rocks a bit to and fro! (One would just needs a