Haze Dolly: Forgotten Dolls & Spooky Simulacra

Dolls! Dolls! Cracked and weathered composition dolls, shabby 1920s boudoir dolls, haunted antique bisque dolls, eerily beautiful Asian Ball-Jointed dolls, lounging impishly in the Uncanny Valley. HAZE DOLLY: A tribute to weird and wonderful, artful and awful, adorable and spine-chilling dolls.

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Mary Mouse and the Dolls’ House by Enid Blyton Illustrations by Olive P. Openshaw c.1949

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Josephine and Her Dolls

by Mrs. H.C. Cradock

pictured by Honor C. Appleton Source

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Celluloid kewpie / carnival dolls, made circa 1920s

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Plastic doll arm earrings

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“This guy lives at Junk and Disorderly in Auckland. If you're ever in NZ I recommend checking them out. They have the oddest stuff.  I didn't buy him but I hope that someone does!” (Is it just me, or does he look like a scary naked Paul Lynde? Photo of Paul Lynde added for comparison.)

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“Loved the lamp, couldn’t get past the teeth so there he stayed”

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“Saw this lovely in a vintage store in Medford, OR. My daughter said, ‘Um, mom? There's a lamp over here. It's not really my aesthetic but I think you'll like it’. She was right.”

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“One of the goodwills in my area tends to be a dud most of the time, but this time I found an absolute gem.“

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Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (1840-1915) “Monkey’s Doll” Source

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BRIDAL MEAT DOLL: The finest in unintentionally gothic wedding decor Source: The Kitsch Meow

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Carnage

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Hiding in plain sight

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Thrift finds: a shabby little ~1930s half doll figurine, resting atop an old handmade doll quilt. Looks like Puss n’ Boots on the embroidered panel.

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Thrift store Ariel living her best, most terrifying life.

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted any of my own photos on Haze Dolly! Here’s a recent-ish thrift store find: a Raggedy Ann with flippy eyelids, by Bobbs-Merrill. There is a battery compartment and a little lightbulb sticking out the top of her head (she was designed as a nightlight).

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“Conscience doth make cowards of us all” - Fannie Moody (1895)

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Fashionable French lady dolls from the Empire period (early 1800s)

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