It's at least real paper mache, with a real safety pin clasp.
She doesn't sing to me at all. The poor girl needs a nose job.
My BiL picked it out, so of course the company stopped making it. Wedgwood doesn't make their formal china any more either, but that sits in a...
Ordinarily, I just can. Eyeballs and experience. Also, they're usually signed on the back. Sometimes the front, but pins are mostly signed on...
I would not be surprised.
Looks like. I spent way too much money on a hand painted floral one when these first came to the USA. The troika one is still good-looking and...
1. Greetings! 2. Good luck. Dolls aren't always easy to sell in this era.
The Russian pins can be worth a bit if hand-painted; they're apt to find homes no matter how they're produced. I might well have left the red hat...
The Smithsonian and the Met say Courting Mirror, so I'm inclined to go with that for a name. Some say Chinese origin, some say Scandinavian. The...
I went to a tag sale this morning that I was planning to skip. First of the year, but the house was built in 2023. I bought three unmarked...
Like many of the "old ways of doing things." It's a crying shame in this case, but with decreased demand and no one new taking up the work we can...
Or suicide by any means. Drug use. Alcohol.
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The redheads appeal more to me too.
The OP's piece is a print with painted accents. I've seen lots of similar Judaica pieces printed on a sheet of acrylic.
For two bucks and change, birdie needed to fly off with you. He's even cat-proof; he doesn't smell like "bird".
Mexican?
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Too true. Things that wouldn't be much whoop now were fatal then.
I never saw the originals or the repro. Then again I was only into Barbie for making the clothes. I never was into the dolls.
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