Wonderful Little Antique Watercolored Cutout Figures, House, and Fire! mid-century tool attached to a hand-stitched cloth

attached to a hand-stitched cloth body

but coming together now just right

Very realistic looking

with a brass latch that holds the top half of the writing surface closed

The fur for the eyebrows

Wonderful Little Antique Watercolored Cutout Figures, House, and Fire! mid-century tool attached to a hand-stitched clothI'm such a sucker for little handmade paper dolls and assorted props made for play pure embodiments of a lively imagination and I just love envisioning the various dramas these little figures once acted out. I'd be pretty confident there were once many more of these figures and related bits, but these are what remain, found in Maine, enclosed in an old envelope. Just these six make quite a cast of characters though a couple of them looking straight