We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon voodoo doll which reveals a tiny loss

which reveals a tiny loss in one spot where the handle meets the middle

and some veins in the stone visible too

late 19th/early 20th century

--by a Rollin R (I believe it reads)

They just don't make tools like they used to

We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon voodoo doll which reveals a tiny lossWe all do fade as a leaf, indeed. Something richer and more interesting to the fading of a leaf than a flower, I'd say. This is an extra large one, which lends what feels like quite a bit of gravitas to the pronouncement, too. And embroidered in metallic gold beads, which furthers that sense of weight, and which themselves have surely darkened tarnished a bit over the many years of its life, all to the good. A most frame worthy one either with the