Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s notebooks ") Together the compass and

") Together the compass and square symbolize ethical conduct

which to my eye amplifies an interesting tension between image

With an old mend on one side--wire stretched on the diagonal from one nail to another

One sees Victorian brass mantle display boots from time to time

and to my eye just strikingly beautiful

Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s notebooks ") Together the compass andQuite a set! All made by the same young person, it appears hand drawn, ink and watercolor on light weight card, cut out by hand, most of the figures with tabs added on reverse for standing them up. And quite a cast of characters mother and father, a bunch of daughters and a son, two women who might be aunts or nannies or teachers , and one older, with patches on her apron, I take for a maid. And then a couple of smaller scale, cartoonish looking boys,