Ultra Spare, Very Beautiful Pair of Antique Clothes Pin Dolls in Wrapped Paper Dresses handdrawn with a heel to boot

with a heel to boot

presumably for holding a knife close at hand

I came across these this week in New Hampshire

17 3/8" x 12 3/4" x 1" d

Ultra Spare, Very Beautiful Pair of Antique Clothes Pin Dolls in Wrapped Paper Dresses handdrawn with a heel to bootPerhaps not everyone would find these humble dolls as beautiful as I do, but they cut straight to my heart. I purchased them from a favorite dealer in my neck of the woods with a wonderful eye for the very most tender things; she noted them as Mennonite, and I presume she knows; I do know that Amish dolls typically do not have faces, in congruence with the notion that that all are alike in the eyes of God. (And I I understand it there is a history of