Zuni Shalako dancer. Black wood, primitive jointed arms, with feather headdress and carrying scourges?
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Zuni Shalako dancer. Black wood, primitive jointed arms, with feather headdress and carrying scourges?
Bisque doll of a young girl, dressed in dark red satin trimmed with lace and beads in the style of the 1880s. Straw hat, inset blue glass eyes, blonde wig with long braids. Bisque arms and legs with painted black boots. Probably German. One foot broken.
Flat, jointed wooden figures from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Characters include: Red Queen, Alice, White Queen, Frog-Footman, Tweedledum, Bill the Lizard, Tweedledee, The Duchess, White Rabbit. Two unrelated figures also included in the same box: 1. Alice in Wonderland jointed wooden figure in painted costume of blue dress and white apron. Long Blond hair, 2. Jointed wooden figure of man in painted costume, red frock coat, yellow trousers with St. Frog? face.
Peg wooden jointed doll in red academic gown with black velvet trim (Oxford D.D.). Painted face. Possibly German or Dutch.
Small bent wood box containing 6 tiny wire and wool "trouble" dolls from Guatemala. Male and female in colourful costumes.
Wire & wool doll of a Greek soldier. Painted wooden face.
Webb's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Complete characters and scenes, uncut, mostly coloured, and bound together.
Full printed colour title sheet and toy theatre characters. Characters have been cut out, and the title sheet has had characters cut out of it. The full title reads, "Webb's Characters & Scenes in the Miller and his Men, In 9 Plates of Characters, 11 Scenes, 1 Plate of Set Pieces, 1 Water Pieces and 4 Plates of Wings nos 1, 5, 29 & 30, With a book adapted only to the above."
Wax doll. Solid wax head, arms and legs. Light blonde hair set into wax. Blue glass eyes. Wearing dress in style of late 1870s: light blue velveteen, white satin and lace, hat to match with plume, yellow leather slippers with buckle. French or English.
Includes uncoloured characters from M. & M. Skelt's "Richard's Soldiers," approximately 1840.