Ultra Spare, Very Beautiful Pair of Antique Clothes Pin Dolls in Wrapped Paper Dresses signed liz and I might guess 1940s-50s

and I might guess 1940s-50s or so

requiring more than a simple turn of blocks to move from one image to the next

humble as can be

Approx 3 1/2 x 5 1/2

There were a number of different makers of "Eye Ointment" in late 19th century England

Ultra Spare, Very Beautiful Pair of Antique Clothes Pin Dolls in Wrapped Paper Dresses signed liz and I might guess 1940s-50sPerhaps not everyone would find these humble dolls as beautiful as I do, but they cut straight to my heart. I purchased them from a favorite dealer in my neck of the woods with a wonderful eye for the very most tender things; she noted them as Mennonite, and I presume she knows; I do know that Amish dolls typically do not have faces, in congruence with the notion that that all are alike in the eyes of God. (And I I understand it there is a history of