Favorite Ever 19th Century Handmade Paper Doll with Three Dresses and Two Hats worker Terrific folky tree rising from

Terrific folky tree rising from this little rocky island in the foreground

a bit hard to date and to place in terms of origin--this has a bit of the feel of Mexican folk art to me

I actually found these two inside an old handmade cigar box circus car

but never have I ever come across a smaller scale one like this

and not a fussy thing about it

Favorite Ever 19th Century Handmade Paper Doll with Three Dresses and Two Hats worker Terrific folky tree rising fromI 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