Wonderfully Awkward Antique Silk on Silk Embroidered Bird 1920s cast iron doorstop but I very much like

but I very much like him this way

but this early model Western Electric was also given a custom paint job long ago--and nothing better to my eye than old creamy white paint

though the one in fabulous red silk polka dot pajamas has lost much of its facial features

reliant on it for his his living

Wonderfully Awkward Antique Silk on Silk Embroidered Bird 1920s cast iron doorstop but I very much likeA little bird very much after my own heart, wonderfully awkward and hard trying! Silk thread on silk ground, hand dyed I believe, making me think this earlyish 19th century, I'd think done by a girl fairly early on in developing her embroidery skills. The feathers of the wings are quite glorious, like flame stitching, but it's the funny beak and dangling little feet that really get me. Love. Framed as found, under glass in a newer gold painted wooden