Tattooed Doll Heads 1 - 3

 Vintage, bisque, stuffed with coconut coir.

Heads 1 and 3 Antique, german, bisque

Head 2 1880s Victorian antique, excavated from the site of a 19th-century German ceramics factory.

Painted with acrylic ink.

Size, excluding thread:

1. 4.5 x 3.3 x 3.4cm

2. 4.2 x 2.6 x 2.8cm 

3. 4.2 x 3.2 x 2.8cm

I'd love to say "from a loving home, carefully stored for decades" but these dolls bear the hallmarks of having been unearthed, forgotten, and sometimes laid alongside rusting materials.

They are rather, "due for a loving home".

I toyed with mounting these in boxes, but I'm of the opinion that if something can dangle, it should. Preferring to hang my own treasures, I decided instead to add a loop of a thread. You can still mount it, but I didn't want to be the one putting a head in a box.

Have I saved one to put on my own Christmas tree? YES. Will it be packed away for a year? Absolutely not. A tattooed baby doll is for all year round.