We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon voodoo doll Top surface measures 12 1/2"

Top surface measures 12 1/2" x 6 1/4"

and the sort of thing one could really dig into if deciphering is one's thing

cheerful and charming and most definitely one of a kind

was made for practice

--by a Rollin R (I believe it reads)

We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon voodoo doll Top surface measures 12 1/2"We all do fade as a leaf, indeed. Something richer and more interesting to the fading of a leaf than a flower, I'd say. This is an extra large one, which lends what feels like quite a bit of gravitas to the pronouncement, too. And embroidered in metallic gold beads, which furthers that sense of weight, and which themselves have surely darkened tarnished a bit over the many years of its life, all to the good. A most frame worthy one either with the