Object Description
The rare and usually large fortune telling doll papier-mâché and carton fortune telling doll, with blue painted eyes, open/closed mouth, green painted moulded bonnet, cylindrical carton body with jointed arms, wearing a black jacket with lace trim and polka dot under garment, yellow figured top and hat, the skirt made of multi-coloured folded paper, each with a hand written fortune in French and holding a black cloth book in hand with text in French; ‘Confide in me – I know the past and the future – nothing can resist my magic wand’, the whole having approximately 115 leaves in beautiful French script and surviving from the middle of the nineteenth century.