Folk Art Abe Lincoln Doll with Very Long Fingers! Hamilton postal scale Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938)

Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938)

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I really love the five brown ones with tented roofs lined up in a row

incorporating wonderful little ink and watercolor drawings of houses and rivers and lighthouses into diagrams applying plane trigonometry

Folk Art Abe Lincoln Doll with Very Long Fingers! Hamilton postal scale Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938)It is absolutely the very very long sculpted paper fingers on this Abe Lincoln that sold me on him, but I love most every detail of him head to toe. His body is made of what seems to be a sort of molded cardboard, which includes a recessed forehead, which might be original to him as it seems quite Lincoln esque, or he might have taken a ding to it at some point. Crepe paper for his hair and beard, and shoes, and then hand sewn suit and linen shirt,