Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric candles And a date: November 8

And a date: November 8

I like to imagine this sign once hung above a big back booth at a local diner

Mexico stamped on the underside

A little paint loss on the handles and one of the sides of the handle stands just a little shy of straight up and down

Inset on the back for picture and glass is approx

Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric candles And a date: November 8This wonderful thing! Its body is an old turned wooden post of some sort, into which eyes were scraped, punctuated with pencil at their centers and a little nose and mouth below, making it look rather like a cat. Around the dowel two different layers of cotton cloth were wrapped around and around, with two slits cut in the heavier cloth through which the hand sewn calico arms were pulled out. Those arms look to have received a few mends near the ends