Early 20th Century Folk Art Topsy Turvy Doll with Two Great Faces! blonde horsehair brush I have found a few

I have found a few different dates associated with this version--as early as the 1920s and as late as the early 1940s

Just a beauty of a vase--super sculptural

but one of the reasons I love these old postcards so much is for their elusiveness 100+ years later

So I was delighted to find this striking piece at an antique shop in Maine: a wooden tray with face constructed of matchsticks and inlaid wood

The raffia knot could easily be clipped off should one desire

Early 20th Century Folk Art Topsy Turvy Doll with Two Great Faces! blonde horsehair brush I have found a fewLove at first sight with this one, even before I realized she was a topsy turvy doll, with a second face hidden beneath her skirt. It was the hand drawn face (looks like ink rather than pencil, with either heavier marker or paint for the eyes and lips) that sold me, so good, but I think I like the exuberantly embroidered eyes (and pencil drawn noise and mouth( of her alter ego just as much! Made of thin cotton sack cloth and early 20th century I