Fantastic Antique Dancing Doll (Uncle Sam?) with Wonderful Painted Details folk art boot What makes me love it

What makes me love it especially is how much someone clearly very much prized this reddish brown cow

once one stops taking care with their appearance

The box is light in weight

and the name Jim Kelley at lower left with planes again and USA

with its dramatically twisting handle

Fantastic Antique Dancing Doll (Uncle Sam?) with Wonderful Painted Details folk art boot What makes me love itOne of the best faces ever on this guy, in my humble opinion, which looks to have been rendered in watercolor with graphite underneath, and the painted details on his chest and giving a zigzag band to his hat are equally good! My guess is that he was meant to represent Uncle Sam, and I think likely dates to the 1870s or so, when representations of the character had become widely popular. Clearly, with hole in his belly for a dowel, and large, flat