Much Loved Old Hand-embroidered Stuffed Doggie antique book plate This wonderfully weathered

This wonderfully weathered

with a little writing in pencil on front and back

Carved of an exotic/tropical hardwood I believe

looks very much like folk art (and really very much like the school girl drawings of flowers I like so much) to me

Much Loved Old Hand-embroidered Stuffed Doggie antique book plate This wonderfully weatheredA sweet stuffed pup, looking a bit forlorn perhaps, though he was certainly much loved for a good bit of his long life. I am thinking may have been made from pre printed cloth these is some text along the hand stitched bottom seam, but its a bit tough to tell if printed on hand written in blue ink. (It does sort of look like it says "Made by" so perhaps the latter. In any case, all of the black is hand embroidered, and what Id guess was once white