Much Loved Old Hand-embroidered Stuffed Doggie antique book plate Carved of an exotic/tropical hardwood

Carved of an exotic/tropical hardwood I believe

usually in German

This wonderfully weathered

Bone had a great line and terrific sense of humor- which this pen and ink drawing animating a Victorian wicker rocker cut from an old catalog wonderfully exemplifies

eyebrows merging into nose and then great little pursed mouth with upturned corners

Much Loved Old Hand-embroidered Stuffed Doggie antique book plate Carved of an exotic/tropical hardwoodA 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