I just love the graphics on this John Mundell & Co antique trade card for its "Solar Tip Shoes" patented in 1878 and at the time this card was produced "now used for more than three years" including by all "eleven hundred students at Girard College
held on with nails at the shoulders
right down to those bared fangs
I would guess maybe 1940s on this box but I am not completely certain
some surface aging along the left and bottom edge and general surface wear
Old Carved Folk Art Doll with Great Face, Pink Dress, and One Leg light green I just love the graphicsHopefulness incarnate if I ever did see it! And this gently smiling, bright eyed face reading as a pure expression of the want to be loved. I did immediately, perhaps all the more so for her having lost one leg along the way. Resilient, she still sits up on her own. And her arms have a full range of motion and hold in place when raised over her head. Pulling up her skirt reveals a petticoat under her pink, flower printed dress, and one painted white