Set of Five Watercolor Paper Doll Dresses staffordshire spill vase and is perhaps is the

and is perhaps is the "after" version of the woman at upper left who has not yet glimpsed the robber

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

Little but lovely

It certainly smacks of love and care

they are divided into two suits: civil and military

Set of Five Watercolor Paper Doll Dresses staffordshire spill vase and is perhaps is theI 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