Hand-carved Lounging Hound vintage art glass long-nosed denizens of New York’s

long-nosed denizens of New York’s Upper West Side

with a soft ochre yellow for the interior of the ears and black squiggles all over for the fur

I've learned that an exact match was made as an umpire's ball and strike keeper--which has become quite the collectible because it allowed for a count of five balls and four strikes

with crab on one side and grass on the other I think is an especially brilliant combo

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Hand-carved Lounging Hound vintage art glass long-nosed denizens of New York’sI really love the face as well as the ultra long body of this carved wooden dog, which I understand from the seller was found in Cuba years ago. I'm terrible identifying species but with its long snout I have to think a hound, and looks maybe like a Borzoi to me? A good combination of elegant and just a bit goofy, looking as if luxuriating in a favorite spot, perhaps in front of a fire, and as if casting a smile in one's direction and almost as if