Favorite Ever 19th Century Handmade Paper Doll with Three Dresses and Two Hats ausable chasm and the olive green of

and the olive green of the rose's leaves don't come across so well--and then also is the fact that her eyes seem to follow one around the room

These two sets are "Gift 3" and Gift 4"

and I believe was made to sit on a desk and serve as a pen rest (though there's no wear to show it was used this way)

and bringing us straight into the content on what's playing

as if sticks of real gold

Favorite Ever 19th Century Handmade Paper Doll with Three Dresses and Two Hats ausable chasm and the olive green ofI 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