James McFarland's c. 1900 Speller and Word Book with Good Endpage Lettering and Scribbles folk art wooden church A close kinship between them

A close kinship between them and carved and jointed wooden dolls otherwise

my guess would be 1940s-50s

It also allows for full exposure of the gorgeous

but looking more closely one sees it is bluer in the recesses and under and around the lip

James McFarland's c. 1900 Speller and Word Book with Good Endpage Lettering and Scribbles folk art wooden church A close kinship between themI am forever opening old spellers to check their end pages for names and drawings and doodles spaces of endless expressive potential! This one was once the possession of a young James McFarland, of Lebanon, Tennessee which is precisely where I found it. I find the lettering spelling out the name of his hometown, surrounded by many iterations of his name and and various marks and shapes and numbers etc. pretty beautiful. More at the end, too, looking