Beautiful Black Folk Art Stockinette Doll with Astrakhan Hair iron ring and I must say when

and I must say when I first saw this one I thought for a moment that it was an actual pressed violet from an herbarium

receiving 75 cents per day worked and loosing $1 per idle day

All of the details on this are great

Billhouse in 1838

and those great red and white patterned stockings

Beautiful Black Folk Art Stockinette Doll with Astrakhan Hair iron ring and I must say whenA beautiful, very tender feeling doll I think, which I believe dates to sometime between about 1910 and 1930. Her head and body were made of of black knit stocking firmly stuffed, with separate rolled pieces for her arms and legs, which were hand stitched to the torso. Hand embroidered black eyes, red nose and slightly open red mouth, adding up to a face that makes her feel to me keenly observant if a bit wary. Her hair is astrakhan (lambs wool, still