The washed-out card indicates that this toy is “handcrafted from Persian lamb’s wool and velvet, 1958.”

I wanted very badly to take this sweet plush poodle home, despite its price tag of $30 (and that was with the final-day discount), but I have neither the space nor the proper skill to to keep her in nice shape, and oh I am going to be sorry about that for a while. I’m not sure if the photo does her justice, or if she’s only beautiful to me, but I think she would look so good on an old chair in a Victorian house, perhaps a Summit Avenue mansion. So I’m going to imagine that somehow, some way, a person who lives in one of those made their way out to this rinkydink split-level in the suburbs and swept her away after all.