I really love her smiling face, but hard to beat the side view-- showing off her sculptural helmet of hair, fisted hands with detailed fingers, and chunky books--so I put that photo first. She was made as a jig doll, with a hole in her back into which a dowel would be inserted in order to hold her up and set her dancing--and she's quite a dancer indeed, with every joint limber and every inch of her just waiting to move. Certainly less common to find female iterations of these articulated figures that male one, and I must say I really love her torpedo-like breasts, which together with he hair make her seem as if ready to dance straight into the machine age!
11 1/4" t x 3 1/2" w x 2 1/4" d. Great condition. Late 19th/early 20th century I believe, and I believe all original--wooden pegs at all joints except the shoulders where there are iron nails/pins. Found in York County, PA.
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