Favorite Ever 19th Century Handmade Paper Doll with Three Dresses and Two Hats schoolgirl drawing and certainly admire the resourcefulness

and certainly admire the resourcefulness and creativity of its maker in piecing these bits together in such a smart and striking way

very old chip to the top edge of the threaded neck

and is annotated with pencil throughout

tiny but teeming with life

) It could be easily framed

Favorite Ever 19th Century Handmade Paper Doll with Three Dresses and Two Hats schoolgirl drawing and certainly admire the resourcefulnessI do believe this is my favorite paper doll I have ever found, and I've found a lot of them. I very much appreciate ones of the more elaborate and skillfully rendered sort, with lots and lots of fancy outfits, but it is a doll like this, with very naive (and very very expressive!) graphite drawn face, that for me is the best of all. And then these hats! And the excellent cut paper patterns applied to the blocky dresses to my eye pure and simple