Super Folky Rainbow Striped Doll with Starry Eyes antique spinning tools and beautifully tethered and preserved

and beautifully tethered and preserved

With wonderfully hand-painted white letters popping against the black tank and equally perfect yellow carriage on trusty black wheels below

with a nice old world sort of presence

There is one patch of what appears to be sun fading to the fabric on the back and one teeny tiny hole in the backing fabric--no matter

Super Folky Rainbow Striped Doll with Starry Eyes antique spinning tools and beautifully tethered and preservedWhoever made this charmer threw everything but the kitchen sink inside of it I think, there's some crinkling of what what I think are plastic bags inside the legs, and something that feels kind of like a small hot water bottle inside the torso, which makes its back stand up straight (and perhaps it once made a squeak, I don't know)! The person who sold it to me thought depression era; I'm not completely sure, but it most certainly has a make do