Toys From The Attic Part II - a mid 19th century painted pap...

Hammer

£80

Toys From The Attic Part II - a mid 19th century painted papier-mâché shoulder head doll, the painted papier-mâché shoulder head with painted features including brown eyes and red lips, moulded and painted black braided hair with painted gold comb to the reverse, partial kid leather body with carved and painted wooden arms and legs with shaped feet, 31cm high, boxed

Reputedly from Tullynessle School, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The lid on the box marked in faint ink 'MRS CRUICKSHANK, TULLYNESSLE SCHOOL, NOT TO BE OPENED BY ANYONE ELSE'. Accompanied with a later photocopy of a photograph of children outside Tullynessle School.