Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed thank you postcard I believe it is quite

I believe it is quite old and made of walnut

looking fabulous holding down a pile of papers while just waiting to be picked up and held in your hand

Solid and sturdy and in very good shape

satisfyingly heavy

I always have an eye out for these

Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed thank you postcard I believe it is quiteThis one moves me on all sorts of levels, including for the dress's transformation into a potent uniform via the single red cross hand stitched onto the white band on one sleeve, and for the staining and fading to the beautiful blue of the linen, making it feel as if if its wearer did plenty of caretaking. And then its careful laying out onto a quilted ground for framing, with the left sleeve folded under as if in perpetual motion. Early 1900s WWI era