Hugely Empathetic Old Painted Make Do Wooden Doll lombardy marquetry I am not certain the

I am not certain the object under the bed at its foot

and understand that they were railroad signs--I'd guess this one signaled "caution" with stop ahead

There is some wear and cracking to the paint (more visible here in magnified views than with the naked eye) and some rust on the base

I would throw this in a simple old frame and hang it on a wall where I could look at it a lot

Hugely Empathetic Old Painted Make Do Wooden Doll lombardy marquetry I am not certain theThis one oh, how could I to leave her behind? She looks to me to have been fashioned from whatever pieces of scrap wood were lying around many many years ago, and then given this terrific paint job, with big white painted buttons down the front of her blue dress, and a vaguely face like face that perhaps only a mother or motherly sort! could love! (And then excellent bright yellow for the back of her head.) Her carved arms, held on with nails at the