Featured Odd find, Marcela is free tonight

found this large (35") mexican lupita doll the other day, found a cool quote about them:

"A number of stories surround the dolls. One of these is that a wife who feels that her husband is cheating on her would buy one of these dolls and write the name of his supposed mistress to let him know that she knew. Another story says that they were used in the past to advertise brothels in Mexico City with each doll representing a prostitute. The dolls in the windows indicated which women were available."

from
http://www.mexicoartshow.com/derramaderovega.html

the ones i've found on ebay are small 13", and look newer

what kind of age do we think marcela has ?

 

Yikes - she looks mean! I think she better lay off the cans of spinach!

 

the 4th pic does make her look a right bruiser !!

 

funny you should say that, i woke up the other day and she had moved into the window

nobody was interested though !!

 

my god davey, that made me laugh

genius

 

Shes very charming,but I dont think too terribly old.You need to find her a miniature Mexican chair to sit in.

 

yeah, i think they stopped making them in the 60s, then they were made again in the 90s

so its one of the two

 

If Marcela is made by Carlos Derramadero Vega, she must be of the special line of Lupitas that are embellished with jewellery etc. She is wearing a hat and necklace. So probably fairly recent but of a special line.
You can ask him, Carlos' email address is mentioned at the top of the article.