Antique French Kid Leather Doll Body, Some Damage long fellow's voices of the night Oh how I love this

Oh how I love this basket

IGA--Independent Grocers Alliance- was founded in 1926 by a group of small grocery retailers to facilitate collective marketing and supply chain access in order for these stores to be competitive

including a few birds of this scale that similarly incorporate stones--but none quite as finely detailed as this one

so he was about 13 when he made these drawings

I'm completely taken with these

Antique French Kid Leather Doll Body, Some Damage long fellow's voices of the night Oh how I love thisWhen I first saw one of these antique French leather doll bodies to which a bisque head and arms would be attached I thought it was am extraordinarily constructed, incredibly evocative thing, and still do! This one has lived quite a life, and shows it with (fantastic looking I think) old patches at both hips, and an untended tear at the one jointed knee, via which its sawdust stuffing is visible, and shedding when one moves her. (There is also a tear