Beautifully Wonky Early 20th C. Baseball antique odd fellows tag there was a German portraitist

there was a German portraitist Carl Jaeger

The handwritten titles are a good part of what I love about them

The exterior features both red

which I think are the perfect punctuation

I don't know her origins but I think she's really fabulous

Beautifully Wonky Early 20th C. Baseball antique odd fellows tag there was a German portraitistI love old balls of many sorts, and find baseballs especially beautiful formally, and for the history of America's pastime they invoke. And most of all I love a wonky one this one even wonkier in person than photos convey. C. 1910s 20s I believe, with red and black stitches, and quite misshapen, as if having lived out in far left field through rain and snow for years before finally being found again. And so, to me, an empathetic object as well as a