Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed carved stamp I'm not a sailor

I'm not a sailor

it's certainly an empathetic one if one is as disposed toward wounded creatures as I am

a little charcoal

6" l  x 3 1/8"w  x 2" t and in very good condition

Glaze crazing as evident and one dark spot as documented

Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed carved stamp I'm not a sailorThis one moves me on all sorts of levels, including for the dress's transformation into a potent uniform via the single red cross hand stitched onto the white band on one sleeve, and for the staining and fading to the beautiful blue of the linen, making it feel as if if its wearer did plenty of caretaking. And then its careful laying out onto a quilted ground for framing, with the left sleeve folded under as if in perpetual motion. Early 1900s WWI era