Beautiful Black Folk Art Stockinette Doll with Astrakhan Hair iron ring that there be a positive

that there be a positive and negative of the same silhouette

beveled glass mirrors

All of the details on this are great

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

Billhouse in 1838

Beautiful Black Folk Art Stockinette Doll with Astrakhan Hair iron ring that there be a positiveA 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