Curious Old Amish Rag Doll with Lost Face american drawings The ends are very flat

The ends are very flat

but never one from the 18th century

" more than twice as long as the others and which she attributes to Cecil Frances Alexander at the end

Every inch of it shows the keen commitment of the "Simms" who signed it (in 1953) to capture every detail of the scene

but altogether in good shape

Curious Old Amish Rag Doll with Lost Face american drawings The ends are very flatCurious and unusual, just the way I like them! This definitely appears to be an old Amish doll to me, and the clothes most certainly arebut its an anomalous one for having (the remnants of) a face, which Amish dolls typically do not, in keeping with the Biblical commandment against graven images and belief that all are alike in the eyes of God. It looks as though the facial features were once embroidered on then ripped out years later, with the cloth