Evocative Old Wooden Hat Form with Tape Helmet correspondance With wonderfully hand-painted white letters

With wonderfully hand-painted white letters popping against the black tank and equally perfect yellow carriage on trusty black wheels below

it is signed Beveridge N

She is emblematic of traditional Oaxacan “barro negro” (black clay) pottery - hand-shaped

plus facial expression that looks quintessentially a catcher's to me

Blocks are in excellent condition

Evocative Old Wooden Hat Form with Tape Helmet correspondance With wonderfully hand-painted white lettersThis just struck me as quite a beautiful thing, with the old tape giving her a helmet of sorts, or really perhaps more like a sort of bathing cap, and so, to my eye, making her feel quite animate. (And also like a woman who has worn many hats!) I believe the wooden form dates to the early 20th century, and I think has quite a lovely shape to it. Head sized: approx 10" t x 6 3 4" w x 7 1 2". Tape is very well attached, and all with quite a wonderful