Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric lenticular glasses and 171 on the reverse

and 171 on the reverse side

great for all sorts of displays--and who can ever have too many magnifiers laying around

She moved to New York in 1942 and became well known as a sculptor creating works in clay

I think of painted lobster claws like this as coastal New England's answer to British vertebrae bone painted in the likeness of John Wesley

Great on the table or desk (I think perhaps a useful stress reliever or thinking device)

Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric lenticular glasses and 171 on the reverseThis wonderful thing! Its body is an old turned wooden post of some sort, into which eyes were scraped, punctuated with pencil at their centers and a little nose and mouth below, making it look rather like a cat. Around the dowel two different layers of cotton cloth were wrapped around and around, with two slits cut in the heavier cloth through which the hand sewn calico arms were pulled out. Those arms look to have received a few mends near the ends