Amazing Antique Hand-sewn Doll with Paper Litho Face pigment slides 9 1/4" x 6 3/4"

9 1/4" x 6 3/4"

a city in Northeastern France

I thought I was going to die

This was quite an exciting thing to find yesterday in New Hampshire

Amazing Antique Hand-sewn Doll with Paper Litho Face pigment slides 9 1/4" x 6 3/4"What a thing! About as surreal as they come, I'd say, and also really quite exquisitely crafted, with tremendous care and a dressmaker's level of skill invested in her making, including several layers of underthings and black knit legs clad in velvet booties under them. Her face is paper litho, securely sewn to a white knit head, with this great mop of blond hair and lace wrap at her neck framing it and hiding any seams. there a small loss to one