Much Loved Old Hand-embroidered Stuffed Doggie mid-century hedgehog and the paper labels left

and the paper labels left on the wood animating all of them with color and texture

maybe captured just as he has landed

The set is complete

sent to the author's dear friends reporting that she is feeling better

The handle is hollow

Much Loved Old Hand-embroidered Stuffed Doggie mid-century hedgehog and the paper labels leftA sweet stuffed pup, looking a bit forlorn perhaps, though he was certainly much loved for a good bit of his long life. I am thinking may have been made from pre printed cloth these is some text along the hand stitched bottom seam, but its a bit tough to tell if printed on hand written in blue ink. (It does sort of look like it says "Made by" so perhaps the latter. In any case, all of the black is hand embroidered, and what Id guess was once white