12″ Penny Wooden Doll. The doll came with the following information:”The dolls were found packed and stored away since 1914. This doll and others were made as a cottage industry by families in the Dolomite Mountains (Italy) and came from a stock of dolls and toys from Herr Insam, a toy maker based in Nuremberg, Germany. The First World War put an end to this toy trade. However, there remained in one of the members of the family a large barn full of these dolls collected years before, ready for dispatch, but which were then unsaleable because of the war. After the war they sold the entire inventory to the famous Pollock’s Toy Museum in London, who in turn sold them to the Williamsburg Paper Parlor.”
In the 1970’s the Williamsburg Paper Parlor offered these dolls for sale for $3.50 each. I purchased my doll in 1973 directly from Williamsburg Paper Parlor in Williamsburg, Virginia.
12″ Penny Wooden Doll. The doll came with the following information:”The dolls were found packed and stored away since 1914. This doll and others were made as a cottage industry by families in the Dolomite Mountains (Italy) and came from a stock of dolls and toys from Herr Insam, a toy maker based in Nuremberg, Germany. The First World War put an end to this toy trade. However, there remained in one of the members of the family a large barn full of these dolls collected years before, ready for dispatch, but which were then unsaleable because of the war. After the war they sold the entire inventory to the famous Pollock’s Toy Museum in London, who in turn sold them to the Williamsburg Paper Parlor.”