Headless Old Hand Knit Doll with Linen Arms and Patches sculpted dog or really most anything

or really most anything

and the lushness of those red printed hearts

I think this one-found at an old estate in Maine

The fact that this dapper fellow's pants and shoes were never finished makes him feel pretty timely for this era of pajama-panted zoom calls

" (a four-color screen print I believe) in an edition of 5 in 1962

Headless Old Hand Knit Doll with Linen Arms and Patches sculpted dog or really most anythingI do seem to have a certain penchant for dolls that have lost their heads! I think this one likely had a china head, which might have some greater objective value than the body and so perhaps was removed, or maybe broken, leaving a few stitches on the bib and some old glue on the neck behind. It could certainly be given a head once again, but I find it quite an evocative and very honest feeling thing as it is, with these patches of white cloth sewn