Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names #2 (Ginger George and Little George), 1860s minature chair One of the things I

One of the things I really love about old wooden stools is that typically they've been put to hard use

I'd guess this old cutout wooden stork head was once attached to a body and lived in a yard or garden somewhere

Mid-late 19th century I believe

I might take them for a mother and child--with the mother in excellent blue suit and child in red necktie

and rather majestic

Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names #2 (Ginger George and Little George), 1860s minature chair One of the things IThis came from a small collection of hair locks and wreaths I just purchased, all dating to the 1860s and all stitched to or tucked into bits of paper annotated with names and notes. I considered listing them as a collection, but realized much of what I find beautiful about these is their specificity and singularity in form and content (color, composition, etc.) and so am more inclined to treat them as individual drawings (and portraits) of sorts, and