Amazing (and very intense!) Antique 22 Inch Waxed Doll with Blue Glass Eyes old handmade toy rendered on fine china

rendered on fine china

and newer reinforcements screwed to either side to sturdy it up

The wood I think is pine

--this sign

with transfer smears here and there original to the piece

Amazing (and very intense!) Antique 22 Inch Waxed Doll with Blue Glass Eyes old handmade toy rendered on fine chinaThis one! Perhaps the most unusual of all the dolls I've come across, and certainly the most haunting! Her head is I believe bisque, but has a wax layer over it, which one can feel when scraping a fingernail across the surface. Her arms and hands are hand sewn of leather, with individuated fingers, and then leather booties stitched to her linen legs. Underneath her hand sewn dress are two more layers a light wool cream colored skirt and white linen