Old Leather Aviator Doll antique notebook drawing (There is a big difference

(There is a big difference between carefully carved and hand-painted old ones and less subtle newer examples where you can see color was sprayed on

Done on lined paper

I believe these are most likely Swiss / Black Forest

as he stares wide eyed (those blue blue eyes

regal but gentle looking Spaniel (I think)

Old Leather Aviator Doll antique notebook drawing (There is a big differenceOne occasionally sees old leather dolls of a similar manner to this one that were "postcard dolls" I am not completely sure whether they were sold and mailed already stuffed or if they were stuffed later, but in either case they were usually souvenirs from somewhere. I'm not sure if this pilot was actually a postcard, and can find not other like it, but it seems rather likely that he was a souvenir, perhaps meant to represent Charles Lindbergh, dating