Antique French Kid Leather Doll Body, Some Damage folk art lion A nice size for framing

A nice size for framing photos and all sorts of other things

solemn organs blow

which they speculate might pre-date the 1880s craze for it

in small part because I'm forever digging around for a needle

but think it is really great just as it is

Antique French Kid Leather Doll Body, Some Damage folk art lion A nice size for framingWhen 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