Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 tabletop chairs and a number of blue

and a number of blue painted rectangles too

mouse and dog

smaller 2 7/8" l

This one—clearly hand-carved as there are carved marks all over him—is the folkiest I’ve seen among them for sure

Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 tabletop chairs and a number of blueA tender and heartfelt thing if I ever did see one. Surely it is Nellie Leora, mother to Gardner (I take that as a G), whose photograph is framed with wreath of braided threads at the center of chair back captured seated in a Victorian wicker chair, with book open in her hands, and very intense gaze! The rest of the chair seems all about Gardner, who embroidered the date on one side, 1914; her own age on the other, 24; and her name front and center,