Marvelous Antique Handmade Clown Doll with French Knot Embroidery Costume vintage portrait and the whole think is

and the whole think is sturdy and stable

I seem to be a magnet for old folky American river landscapes lately

Of a nice scale at 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" x 3 1/2"

It's quite a sweet one though

Marvelous Antique Handmade Clown Doll with French Knot Embroidery Costume vintage portrait and the whole think isPretty amazing! I don't know much about the origins of this charmer, but would guess Victorian era European, and whoever made him put quite an extraordinary effort into decorating most every inch of his knit body with thousands of tiny French knots. There are a few small patches of loss, and a few small mends to seams, but overall his is in very good shape, with the marvelous clown suit decoration on his torso entirely in tact and the pom poms still