Delicate Antique Carved Wooden Japanese Doll with Silk and Paper Kimona celluloid penguin I have no idea the

I have no idea the story behind this plaster bust

As evident there is a little staining  to the paper on a couple at the top and toning around the edges

NH -- an estate turned grand resort hotel that opened to the public with fanfare in 1883

He wrote it on a bit of paper for me to write

held in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American History

Delicate Antique Carved Wooden Japanese Doll with Silk and Paper Kimona celluloid penguin I have no idea theI spotted this in a case at Brimfield in July, and could not walk away from her such an exquisitely crafted Japanese doll, and an old one, c. 1900 or a bit earlier, with carved and painted wooden head and body, and real hair. I believe she would be called a "hina" doll (of which there are many types, standing and seated), which represented emperors and empresses and members of the court. The silk of her purple kimona is frayed, and much of the lower