5 Headless Frozen Charlotte Dolls Excavated from Germany Late 1800's Tiny 1 1/8"

Description: Charming little headless Frozen Charlotte dolls – perfect for the collector of peculiar treasures! Each set includes five miniature dolls, each measuring around 1 1/8" (with slight variations up to 1/8"). Most retain their tiny legs, while some bear signs of time's gentle wear and are missing a leg creating a unique mix of doll fragments with their own haunting charm. Ideal for shadow boxes, curios, or an eccentric touch to your collection. Embrace the allure of the incomplete, where each piece tells its own curious tale! Your 5 little treasures will be a mixture of assorted styles. *****NOTE****** Frozen Charlottes are getting harder and harder to find- I work with excavators in Germany, and all of my charlottes are original and authentic- If you would like a Charlotte, I suggest you purchase them, as they will become rarer and rarer as time goes on. please see all photos FROZEN CHARLOTTESEXCAVATED FROM Lauscha Germany Manufactured as early as 1850, these intriguing bisque/china/porcelain dolls were originally produced as Victorian Bathing Dolls, called Frozen Charlotte; so named from a song about a Victorian-era girl who went out dancing with her beau to a ball at a nearby inn. She left without her wrap against her mother's wishes and froze in the snow. As the story goes, on a piercingly cold, winter night, Charlotte's beau, Charles, picked Charlotte up in his sleigh to attend a ball at the village inn, 15 miles away. Looking lovely, young Charlotte, dressed in her finery, vainly wanted to be seen and admired along the way. She did not listen to her mother's good advice to cover herself with a blanket, refusing even to wear her wrap. By the time she and Charles arrived at the inn, Charlotte was a frozen corpse! The song goes on to say that Charlie soon died of a broken heart and they forever slumber together, in one tomb. Most of these charming dolls were manufactured by numerous factories in Germany from 1850 to the early 1900s although few bear any identifying marks. With the onset of WW1 and subsequently WW2 most of the factories were abandoned or destroyed- so these little dolls lay buried in the dirt in the large manufacturing centers and they are dug up by “excavators”. These Charlottes come from the Lauscha area in Germany.

Price: 9.99 USD

Location: Glen Carbon, Illinois

End Time: 2024-11-13T17:05:54.000Z

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