Set of Five Watercolor Paper Doll Dresses staffordshire spill vase or to use daily around

or to use daily around the house

and then ears and eyes and legs and tail nailed and/or welded on

To my eye a beautifully primitive

Photographing it under magnification I realized it is marked Czechoslovakia on one side near the tip

I would guess this belonged to one of the two so dates to sometime between the very beginning of the 19th century and the very early 1830s

Set of Five Watercolor Paper Doll Dresses staffordshire spill vase or to use daily aroundI played with paper dolls as a child, but just ones I cut out of a book, never handmade and carefully watercolored ones such as this, with pencil drawn lace and details, too, and which I might guess someone's mother lovingly made for them. I just can't not rescue things like this, which just need a cutout figure to put them into play again, or would be lovely together in a frame. Set includes five in total, as documented. 7 1 2" to 8 inches tall and