Much Loved Old Hand-embroidered Stuffed Doggie mid-century hedgehog The set is complete

The set is complete

and the paper labels left on the wood animating all of them with color and texture

Very touching and very lovely

though it is so distinctive and beautifully decorated I think I'd be more inclined to treat it as a design object than to drink out of it--I  might put it to use as a small planter

sent to the author's dear friends reporting that she is feeling better

Much Loved Old Hand-embroidered Stuffed Doggie mid-century hedgehog The set is completeA sweet stuffed pup, looking a bit forlorn perhaps, though he was certainly much loved for a good bit of his long life. I am thinking may have been made from pre printed cloth these is some text along the hand stitched bottom seam, but its a bit tough to tell if printed on hand written in blue ink. (It does sort of look like it says "Made by" so perhaps the latter. In any case, all of the black is hand embroidered, and what Id guess was once white