Very Endearing Japanese Monkey Hand Puppet textile wall hanging Other than the missing foot

Other than the missing foot

it's just a beautiful thing

I found this beautiful badger hair brush at the estate sale of an artist who had a gorgeous studio stocked with highest quality supplies for work in most every medium

at a recent estate sale

With wonderfully hand-painted white letters popping against the black tank and equally perfect yellow carriage on trusty black wheels below

Very Endearing Japanese Monkey Hand Puppet textile wall hanging Other than the missing footThat face! Everything about this homely monkey hand puppet seems just to cry out "love me!," and the fact that he seems to have had a pretty rough life pulls at my heart strings even more. I believe his head is made of plaster, which has some small chips in it, and from which some of the brown paint has worn off. His body is sewn of flannel, with a few spots and stains and one loose seam at the neck, but very soft and still holding together everywhere