“TUCK ME IN MOMMY” NOTE CARD

This is a blank card for you to write what you want inside.  It is a setting made from dolls.

I think this is so precious.

On the back of the card it reads:

The little boy doll being tucked in is called an “open closed-mouth doll” because his mouth was designed to appear open, though it has no aperture.  He was produced between 1880 and 1890 by Armand Marseille of Germany.   His head is made of bisque, his body of composition, and he wears a mohair wig.

His auburn haired mother, a Simon & Halbig fashion figure of 1880 and also from Germany, is of similiar construction and is wearing her original clothes.

The hair for mohair wigs, according to doll historians, was prepared by first dying it, then wrapping it around a tubular shape of glass or wood.  Finally, it was boiled and baked to give the hair a permanent curl.   Dolls curtesy of S. Glass.

The card is from Current Inc “Dollhouse Greeting Cards”

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