Time again for sharing the many and various pix of antique chinahead dolls... Please post your s too!
Here are a couple to start off this thread. And because I think it is much more interesting to see what's behind the scenes as well as what's up front, here are some detailed shots of my "newest" old girl...a Kister covered wagon shoulderhead from approx 1850. 19 1/2" tall.
The larger of the 2 ( at approx 25" tall) is a brown eyed covered wagon with circular nostrils, as well as molded eyes and lids. She also is approx 1850.
Covered wagon refers to the hair style, rounded to the head, with low side and back curls. I guess they called it a covered wagon style because that was a typical mode of transportation in those mid-19th C days; although my grandmother was a baby when she and her parents moved across the state of Wisconsin in a covered wagon back in the 1890s...
The Kister doll supposedly spent several more generations in Germany before coming over with her family around 1910, so doubt that she ever got to ride in a covered wagon. Amusingly, her seller, who inherited the doll, sold her with a carriage, that has a fringed top, that she calls a covered wagon!