Serve Well Hosiery Box (Poignantly Filled with Bingo Game, as Found) mustard bot with small ears and head

with small ears and head turned toward one side in what feels like a gesture of curiosity as well

Here's another thing I couldn't resist in large part due to the color of the old paint on it

such that it feels as if this branch might just extend on forever

and with the added joy of running one's fingers through them

This is the third of three early 20th century Dutch school work samplers I am listing

Serve Well Hosiery Box (Poignantly Filled with Bingo Game, as Found) mustard bot with small ears and headThis one. So loaded, one could write a thesis on it. A Serve Well Hosiery box, c. 1940s or so I believe, implying all sorts of possibilities for "serving well." Once it contained size 9 Ginger Brown stockings, but was found with Bingo cards and numbers inside, including some make do number substitutions written on cardboard representing a presumably well earned escape from serving well! And it does not seem very far fetched to me to imagine the wearer