Unusual Antique Punch Paper Embroidery with Bows For Hair Locks and Bible painted tin toy I've only recently learned that

I've only recently learned that carved wooden "whimsies" like this one are a thing

12 1/2" across when flat

great on a desk as as a paperweight or perched atop a pile of books or magazines

Pine Tree St

intense and very human

Unusual Antique Punch Paper Embroidery with Bows For Hair Locks and Bible painted tin toy I've only recently learned thatThe locks of hair from Mary S. Curtiss, her parents, and her sister are long gone from this punch paper embroidery, if they ever were in fact secured to it, but it's such an unusual and wonderfully done one, I don't much mind. On the second line are an "F" for father and "M for mother with a bow beside each, and then two more bows to hold "some of my sisters" ("C" and "S"), and then one more for Mary's hair, too. Plus a holy bible, labeled, at lower