RARE HAIR MILLINERS DOLL 1800\'s PAPIER MACHE ANTIQUE DOLL
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RARE HAIR MILLINERS DOLL 1800\'s PAPIER MACHE ANTIQUE DOLL :
$650.00
1800\'s Antique paper- mache milliners doll with rare hair style. Beautiful face with blue painted doe eyes, pink cheeks and red lips. She has a very fancy hairdo, black hair with center part with a braided bun and hair curled over her ears. Her body is stuffed kid leather. All original clothes including cotton lace, under clothes, and red leather shoes.crazing on right shoulder and in the back. Rub on nose, flecks coming off hair. Normal wear for the age of this beautiful doll. She is 13 inches tall.
According to German sources of information, papier-mache macerated paper mixed with glue was first used for doll heads about 1820. It was probably invented by the Italians and was used in other countries for small objects, such as boxes and trays, and for architectural moldings prior to its use for dolls. We do not know who first made the Milliners\' Models, those dolls with stiff, unjointed, kid bodies, wooden arms and legs, and papier mache heads, with a variety of molded hair styles like those popular from 1820 to about 1860. This seems to be the period during which these dolls were made, but where is not known. Some authorities suggest Holland but nobody really knows.
RARE HAIR MILLINERS DOLL 1800\'s PAPIER MACHE ANTIQUE DOLL :
$650.00