A mysterious doll

Here is a doll who was listed on eBay as an old girl doll.
The doll has a lovely dress and bonnet but there is something about her construction........















Undressed, the doll reveals itself as a Schoenhut doll......and that is no girl.......that is a boy doll with carved hair that has had a few DIY paint jobs.

His head has had at least 5 layers of bad paint including one layer of a mustard colour.....what was someone thinking to paint a doll the colour of mustard???



So, the plan is to remove all the DIY paint layers and get him back to what is left of his original paint.


He is worth the effort as he is one of Schoenhut's earliest models that was produced only in 1911.

This is what he is supposed to look like.

Here he is partially stripped.
It is a slow go.
Some of the bad layers are quite thick!