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1890-1900Length: 35”Handle Width: 1”Handle Depth: 2”The beautifully hand carved antler handle modelled as a hand clasping a skull above a white metal collar

An Early Victorian Composition Half-Figured Fortune Telling Doll c.1850-60 sub-Macabre- Medicine We therefore have no reasonOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early Victorian Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1850 60Height: 5Diameter: 5 (approx.)The rare fortune telling doll with moulded and black painted centre parted hair with ringlets around the sides, moulded clothes with red spotted pinafore and collar, her arms held across her chest, the dress made of many pieces of concertinaed and folded multi coloured paper, each leaf unfolding to reveal a handwritten fortune (approximately 150