Set of Five Watercolor Paper Doll Dresses staffordshire spill vase and is perhaps is the

and is perhaps is the "after" version of the woman at upper left who has not yet glimpsed the robber

and then ears and eyes and legs and tail nailed and/or welded on

Little but lovely

This carving though--carved from the vertebrae of what type of animal I  am not sure--does not seem an easy fit for either category

Photographing it under magnification I realized it is marked Czechoslovakia on one side near the tip

Set of Five Watercolor Paper Doll Dresses staffordshire spill vase and is perhaps is theI played with paper dolls as a child, but just ones I cut out of a book, never handmade and carefully watercolored ones such as this, with pencil drawn lace and details, too, and which I might guess someone's mother lovingly made for them. I just can't not rescue things like this, which just need a cutout figure to put them into play again, or would be lovely together in a frame. Set includes five in total, as documented. 7 1 2" to 8 inches tall and