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More Vintage Japan

At a city-wide garage sale event last summer I wasn't finding much until towards the end when I was delighted to find these little dolls in a jumbled box of odds and ends and plastic toys. I was even happier to find out the owner wanted only a few dollars for them.

Little kokeshi nodders. The girl has a big chip out of her hair but they are otherwise in good condition.

 

Even better, they are nesting dolls.

This is a book and record set I got in the same lot of books as the paper dolls in my last post. Unfortunately I no longer have a working turntable, but it's still pretty cute.<p>

The illustrations are clearly European and from her shoes maybe Dutch? I like how she is clearly bringing a bottle of wine to poor sick Grandma.

Vintage Japanese Paper Dolls

I bought a couple sets of paper dolls off of Ebay last week--from some other pictures I'd seen on the internet, it appeared it was likely they were actually reproductions but they were still cute enough that I decided to bid on them.

When I received them it was pretty clear that they were indeed modern reproductions but I'm still happy with them:

A few months ago I had won another set that was in lot with some other Japanese books. This one probably is from the 1950's based on the clothing styles and is really adorable

I saw on another blog where someone created a garland with paper dolls by clipping them to twine with tiny clothespins and I'm wondering about displaying mine that way--but I'd have to punch out the clothes and I'm not sure I'd rather leave them intact.