Very Soulful Antique Cork Stuffed Stocking Doll with Button Eyes and Embroidered Dress nice dominoes Hearts on tramp art pieces

Hearts on tramp art pieces always make me happy

6 7/8" x 4 9/16"

with some scattered tiny dark marks near the top edge of the paper

I believe they were/are practice efforts in advance of making theorem paintings or decorating tinware (tole painting) and incorporate a combination of painting done with stencils and by hand

Emblematic of the late 19th-early 20th c

Very Soulful Antique Cork Stuffed Stocking Doll with Button Eyes and Embroidered Dress nice dominoes Hearts on tramp art piecesThis 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