Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s found sign and the arts and crafts

and the arts and crafts green and bright white combo

where all secrets would be revealed

I really love the head on this old folk art hobby horse--just the sort of kind and gentle horse one would like to be riding around the back yard

and the rest of it carved of ebony

Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s found sign and the arts and craftsQuite a set! All made by the same young person, it appears hand drawn, ink and watercolor on light weight card, cut out by hand, most of the figures with tabs added on reverse for standing them up. And quite a cast of characters mother and father, a bunch of daughters and a son, two women who might be aunts or nannies or teachers , and one older, with patches on her apron, I take for a maid. And then a couple of smaller scale, cartoonish looking boys,