Very Old Carved Wooden Doll Scale Dress Form with Fantastic Patina of Use clock glass painting with perhaps a tiny chip

with perhaps a tiny chip at the top corner of the blade

and people gathered there in the evenings to tell stories and sing songs

(a very short video is included in photos

with a ball so large it seems poised to bust out of its cage entirely

This one is very much all about numbers--really purely a book of math problems and solutions

Very Old Carved Wooden Doll Scale Dress Form with Fantastic Patina of Use clock glass painting with perhaps a tiny chipI don't buy much online these days as I really prefer the thrill of going out and digging for things myself, but this one I bought from online seller in Ohio, and think is quite extraordinary. It's an antique, hand carved dress form that would have been used by a tailor either making fine doll clothes or perhaps doll scale sample garments and quite a busy tailor they must have been as there are pin pricks all over it, especially down the front for