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Soviet wooden figures, Старик со старухой (Old Man and Old Woman)

Object/Artifact

A pair of lathe-turned and carved wood figures seated on a shared slatted bench, depicting an elderly couple winding red yarn between them. The man (left) is bareheaded with a turned dome of reddish-brown hair, a smiling painted face, a peasant tunic with a small blue collar device, and blue-striped trousers; he holds a skein winder. The woman (right) wears a tall blue headdress painted with orange dots, has rosy cheeks and downcast eyes, and clasps a ball of red yarn against a barrel-form skirt banded in red and brown. A length of red thread links his winder to her yarn ball.

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2025.25.1

Displayed in the María T Cornide's house.

María Teresa Cornide Hernández collection

2025.25

Fábrica "Luch"

1984

1980s

Moscow

U.S.S.R.

Eastern Europe

Europe

Date: 1984 (label: ОТК — quality-control acceptance — month 10, 1984).

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МОСROPНCЛOAKOM ШВЕЙНЫХ ИЗАВЛИЙ Ф KA Нанманование изделия СТАРИК СО СТАРУХОЙ Артикул СМГ-2026 а PCT РСФСР 565-77 Сорт І. Цена 2р 50к 1984 r. МОСКВАН КРАСНОВЕЛЬСКАЯ 5

Russian

Printed paper label on the underside of the bench. Maker emblem: МОСГОРИСПОЛКОМ / управление спец. пром. предприятий, использующих труд инвалидов / ШВЕЙНЫХ ИЗДЕЛИЙ / Ф-КА «ЛУЧ» (with wheat-sheaf device). Below: Наименование изделия — СТАРИК СО СТАРУХОЙ ("Old Man with Old Woman"); Артикул СМГ-2026 а; ГОСТ РСФСР 565-77; Сорт I. Цена 2 р. 50 к. (Grade I, 2 rubles 50 kopecks); ОТК 10 1984 г.; Москва, Н. Красносельская, 5. Painted blue device on the man's tunic; no other marks.

Wood

Thread

Materials: Turned and carved softwood (pine/birch), hand-painted decoration (aniline/gouache type), wound red yarn/thread, paper label. Technique: Lathe-turned and assembled wood components; hand-painted; mechanical action linkage at the base; applied yarn detailing.

Very Good

Maria T. Cornide Hernández

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

use

Moscow

U.S.S.R.

Eastern Europe

Europe

production

The label places manufacture within Mosgorispolkom's directorate of "special industrial enterprises using the labor of the disabled" — a Soviet sheltered-employment system. The "Luch" garment factory produced this wooden toy as a non-core sideline (the masthead category is швейных изделий, sewing goods).

Старик со старухой winding yarn is a domestic folk-genre subject; the two-figure mechanism descends from the Bogorodsk / Russian moving-toy tradition.

ГОСТ РСФСР 565-77 is the 1977 RSFSR state standard for the product class; retail 2 r. 50 k.; article SMG-2026a.