Evocative Old Hand-sewn Doll Body with Wooden Arms and Many Mends vintage wooden figurine Nicole old write paint

Nicole old write paint

Could be mid-century but maybe more contemporary

Schmidt's name indicates he or she did this drawing for a class

but this I think is an especially good one

or a bureaucrat

Evocative Old Hand-sewn Doll Body with Wooden Arms and Many Mends vintage wooden figurine Nicole old write paintI just couldn't resist this one, who lost her head (I believe likely a Minerva type German tin one) along the way but which I find all the better without one. I just love the patchwork of grain sack bust giving way to carved wooden arms, pink abdomen, plaid underwear of sorts, and blue purple stocking legs, embroidered with what look like mushrooms or umbrellas or arrows down the side. Plus all sorts of mends and reinforcements. Quite a thing! Early