Wild Hand-sewn Leather Piecework Large, Headless Doll Body with Open Arms! William Charles Palmer ink drawing The set is in excellent

The set is in excellent condition

though this is really a guess

Made from an old threaded iron rod-- as an end of day whimsy by an iron worker or machinist

More beautiful in person

with dark (scalded i believe)

Wild Hand-sewn Leather Piecework Large, Headless Doll Body with Open Arms! William Charles Palmer ink drawing The set is in excellentA weird and wild one, which I find amazing and perhaps Halloween season is the right time for it, though I really find this doll body quite tender, with these wide arms seeming all about delivering a big, exuberant hug! I understand from the seller that the leather piecework patchwork body was made by an artist who worked in leather and came from his estate. I don't know more than that, but the leather itself is heavy, and beautiful, and skillfully