Marvelous Antique Handmade Paper Animals, Group Two antique folk art doll " To me this layering

"  To me this layering of annotations across time

"Shabby chic" condition

I believe whisk brooms/brushes of this sort of construction are generally referred to "turkey wing"--though the bristles on most are more angled

with AM at lower right corner on the face

Marvelous Antique Handmade Paper Animals, Group Two antique folk art doll " To me this layeringPerhaps a menagerie of cut paper animals and soldiers, too, listed separately would not set everyone's heart racing, but they sure do for me, especially when the names of the animals are written across their fronts in the very best manner of kid handwriting a la 1900 or so. Pure joy. I'm especially partial to the bat (name on reverse side) and hedgehog here, but the antlers on those deer (and dear!) are pretty marvelous too, and the horse cut from an