Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed British playing cards This is among a several

This is among a several drawings I purchased together by Dr

but still sturdy as a rock with all the hinges and latches firmly attached and locking it up tight

perhaps glad to be freed from the dowel that once stuck in his back and held him up to make him dance

was used and shows age

Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed British playing cards This is among a severalDoesn't get much moodier than this one, feeling almost like a post mortem of these two dolls! Early photographs of girls with their dolls are not too hard to come by, but much rarer to find portraits of dolls alone, and here a pair, both with painted porcelain heads and porcelain arms, but slightly different from one another (I'd call the one at left the older sister!) And with what looks like a doll bed behind them, which they are leaning up against.