Very Soulful Antique Cork Stuffed Stocking Doll with Button Eyes and Embroidered Dress household accounts I purchased this one from

I purchased this one from the estate of an artist near me--I don't do a lot with mid-century art

I'd guess 1970s or 80s but am not completely certain

or maybe they're just decorative flourishes

This brush

Very Soulful Antique Cork Stuffed Stocking Doll with Button Eyes and Embroidered Dress household accounts I purchased this one fromThis wonderful old doll in her much aged embroidered white dress keeps making me think of Miss Havisham from Great Expectations looking as if she's been waiting around forever for a wedding day that never arrived. How soulful she seems now, with a deep intensity to those black beaded eyes, held by thread against her knit stockingette face, white just around the eyes and toned brown nearly everywhere else. And with the woolen stump knot work embroidery