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Dutch doll

Sometimes a peg wooden doll's arms or legs are locked together by the jointing system, so if one arm is moved the other will move.

One of the valley's best-known products is the peg wooden doll which was popular all over Europe and America in the 19th century.

Tuck comb dolls are a special style of peg wooden doll, named for their carved hair comb.

Peg wooden dolls also known as Dutch dolls are a type of wooden doll from Germany and the Netherlands.

The German and Dutch peg wooden dolls were cheap and simply made, and were popular toys for poorer children in Europe going back to the 16th century.

In the Night Terrors episode of the British series Doctor Who, the doll monsters are called Peg Dolls although they only slightly resemble traditional peg wooden dolls.

Wooden and early papier mache dolls, peg wooden dolls, poured wax dolls, china dolls, French bebes and lady dolls are all dressed in their summer finery, with their own little fashion plates - paper dolls with changes of attire.

There was nothing of the Dutch Doll about her face now.

I think you've got a weakness for that Dutch doll of a girl."

The book told of a family of Dutch dolls owned by two girls in London.

She was older than the other patients, grey haired and angular as a Dutch doll propped in her chair.

In one of her first school plays where she played a Dutch doll, Diana only agreed to take the part if she could remain silent.

They were no more like the Martians I saw in action than a Dutch doll is like a human being.

They get stuck on to a foreign princess that's as stiff as a Dutch doll, and they have their fling.

The Adventures of a Dutch Doll.

The Museum Gherdëina displays a rich collection of Dutch dolls of all sizes.

Marie resembled a life-size Dutch doll that only needed the winged hat and clogs of the traditional costume to make the illusion complete.

Tolkien invented Tom Bombadil in memory of a Dutch doll which had been flushed down a lavatory.

As one young fellow, earlier seen making two skulls kiss like Dutch dolls, announces happily: "Oh, jeebies, this has turned into a great oul night.

Peg wooden dolls also known as Dutch dolls are a type of wooden doll from Germany and the Netherlands.

The typical Gherdëina jointed doll, called as well dutch doll, peg doll or stick doll, can be seen in many different sizes.

In order to afford tuition to art school, she illustrated a children's book entitled The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg.

The doll-like characters would appear to be based on drawings of Dutch dolls prepared by Barbara Jones for her book "The Unsophisticated Arts".

In an attic, Travers said, she found a wooden peg Dutch doll with painted coal-black hair, a turned-up nose and small, bright blue eyes that became the model.

Doors, tables, walkingsticks, wheelbarrows, wooden swords for boys, Dutch dolls for girls I could hear the cry of each uncreated thing as it expired in the flames.

In 2005 the ride was redecorated with the famous Dutch doll "Loekie de Leeuw", which also was created by Joop Geesink.

The original Golliwogg and Dutch Dolls resided for many years at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country estate in Berkshire.

Finally in the 19th century in Gardena, mainly wooden toys and dolls known also as Dutch dolls or penny dolls, were carved by the millions of pieces.

She nearly stuck; but just in time I met a girl called Mary Button, a neat Dutch doll as clean as soap, and Audrey P. was back on offer.

They were doing a sort of Nordic cha cha cha with Dutch doll movements, hands and feet turned out at right angles and clockwork jerks of the head.

Tolkien invented Tom Bombadil in memory of his children's Dutch doll, and wrote light-hearted children's poems about him, imagining him as a nature-spirit evocative of the English countryside.

The publishing house of Longmans, Green & Co. offered Florence a contract, and The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg was published for Christmas 1895.