Very Soulful Antique Cork Stuffed Stocking Doll with Button Eyes and Embroidered Dress household accounts or maybe they're just decorative

or maybe they're just decorative flourishes

A photo booth photo I believe

This brush

I've found a handful of other photographs by Lamon out there from the late 1880s-early 1890s

Very Soulful Antique Cork Stuffed Stocking Doll with Button Eyes and Embroidered Dress household accounts or maybe they're just decorativeThis wonderful old doll in her much aged embroidered white dress keeps making me think of Miss Havisham from Great Expectations looking as if she's been waiting around forever for a wedding day that never arrived. How soulful she seems now, with a deep intensity to those black beaded eyes, held by thread against her knit stockingette face, white just around the eyes and toned brown nearly everywhere else. And with the woolen stump knot work embroidery