“I like the fact that Santa is known as a giving person ... Deschenes took up collecting antique chocolate molds and creating chalkware — figurines sculpted or cast from gypsum — more ...

Very delicately he outlines the eyes on the molded chalk Santa Claus in front of him. That detail seems to bring the figure to life ... He began making chalkware around 1980, about a year after ...

It is around 6 inches high. Answer: From your photo you appear to have a carnival chalkware figurine made in the 1940s-1950s. Such figures were carnival ring-toss prizes. You tossed the ring and ...