Featured Collection of wooden creepy, weird and wonderful handmade dolls

Hello,

I purchase this collection of lets say weird, wonderful and a little creepy handmade wooden dolls they is around 40 of them and all different and they are due to arrive today these are photos from the seller.



any ideas on age? country? value? any additional information would be grateful.

 

One is clearly stamped Made in Poland, and I suspect others were too. Some look Scandinavian; they were tourist pieces. The Mertens one looks like what the call a "smoker" or incense burner. He was probably German.

 

Looks like someone's collection of "foreign" dolls! I have many similar, from the late 1950's to mid-1960's - quite a few of them from various pavilions at the 1964-65 NY World's Fair.

 

the biggest exporter was the German region of Erzgebirge (city of Aue) when they were still behind the iron curtain.
most are made in the triangle Czechia, Germany, Poland - or better: what once was German...
I don't see anything special, millions around, so don't ask too much.
https://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_fro...zge.TRS0&_nkw=holzfiguren+erzgebirge&_sacat=0

 

Thanks everyone, once they arrive I will be able to tell you more, I actually paid £34 for the entire collection they is an estimated 40 peices so maybe some little room for profit.

 

I see a couple of Hungarian ones, Rumanian, Austrian, Bulgarian, German, former Yugoslavia. The one with the wide brimmed hat looks Andean.
You could post them individually and I could tell each one, but that would be a lot of effort for very little value. Cute, but there is nothing that stands out.

 

International dolls from around the world, as stated by the others.

The "theme" of the collector appears to me, was to collect wooden dolls of around the world.....approx. of the same size.

The only Scandinavian "doll" that I see, might be the tallest one in the 5th picture. It appears that the "skirt" is slotted.....if so, she is a napkin holder.

 

I can see the slotted skirt, but how does that work as a napkin holder?

 

In my opinion, not very well. I have one but have never used it.

One folds the napkin in some fashion.....honestly, I'd have to experiment with the one I own, to know how.

When folded "properly", it should resemble her "skirt".

This style napkin holder was popular a few years back.

 

I see, like a pleated skirt, I suppose.

 

I found an example......

The one on the right with the cloth is a "snack holder".

 

Yes, that's it.

We used to have a similar cloth thing in a basket for rolls.

 

it looks like a generic version of cushion dolls

 

Someone had a lot of fun collecting those. I wouldn't call them "handmade" though as they were mass produced.

Debra

 

they are massproduced, found on every xmas market.

 

I have a very similar cloth thing in red. I keep forgetting I have it.

 

I think the egg-shaped pieces are for darning socks. Or were; these days we just say "oh darn" and toss the socks. And yes, I've used one.