Little Handmade Smiling Humpty Dumpty wooden boxer dog in pencil in the bottom

in pencil in the bottom right corner

making them feel weighty in both senses of the word

” but also a square of sandpaper adhered to the bottom left corner for striking matches

Victoria and Albert Museum London

and a chunk out of the wood along the bottom edge on the back side

Little Handmade Smiling Humpty Dumpty wooden boxer dog in pencil in the bottomI love the femininity of this especially happy looking little handmade Humpty Dumpty doll, long legged, blue eyed and with an angelic little pink smile. A stitch or two on the nose I think have come loose, leaving a pink knot and loose end of the thread, which echoes the rightward glancing eyes. It's stuffed with batting or similar rather than beads or something heavy, and sits nicely perched on a shelf. Good condition, firmly stitched together, with