Very Soulful Antique Cork Stuffed Stocking Doll with Button Eyes and Embroidered Dress household accounts These two I found yesterday

These two I found yesterday at the "Papertown" show in Boxborough

and I'd guess Maud drew this one as well

or maybe they're just decorative flourishes

the wood on the handle of one side reads "Real Ebony" and the other bears some text I cannot read followed by "France

The top lifts off easily and is pretty sturdy should one wish to hold some special treasure in it now

Very Soulful Antique Cork Stuffed Stocking Doll with Button Eyes and Embroidered Dress household accounts These two I found yesterdayThis wonderful old doll in her much aged embroidered white dress keeps making me think of Miss Havisham from Great Expectations looking as if she's been waiting around forever for a wedding day that never arrived. How soulful she seems now, with a deep intensity to those black beaded eyes, held by thread against her knit stockingette face, white just around the eyes and toned brown nearly everywhere else. And with the woolen stump knot work embroidery