A.H Homan's Late 19th C. Hand-stitched Leather Softball man in suit with collaged images and clippings

with collaged images and clippings and very carefully handwritten text all carefully arranged and commenting on one another

or a pair of front or hind paws rather than just one--and there are a couple of blank ones too

but I believe this was also an art school color exercise

photos show what I can easily see

and very much to beautifully inked calligraphic lettering too--so of course I jumped on this one

A.H Homan's Late 19th C. Hand-stitched Leather Softball man in suit with collaged images and clippingsI've said before and it continues to be true that I've got a special weakness for old hand stitched baseballs, softballs, and otherwise beautiful and resilient objects, bearing traces of every hand and bat that ever touched them, and prized enough for one reason or another to have endured (or found many years later out in far left field!). This is a hand stitched leather softball, late ish 19th c. I believe based on some research comparison. With a