Peg woodens, Groderntals, Queen Anns, are all basically the same design. A solid body, very much like a final from a wooden post. With a solid undiscript head. Often more like a bead with either an attached wedge for a nose or no nose. The eyes are either painted or carved and the hard inset with glass wedge.
The joints were made to move simply and the hips were laced often in a beveled manner so that it could sit easily.
All joints had at least one curve section and matching curved top areas so that the joint could move without restriction.
Some were elaborate with painted detail carved shoes at the bottom of the leg, some had detailed fingers, it depended on the artist who created it, just how
detailed they wanted it to be.
Peg woodens or Penny woodens, often resembed sticks with a wooden ball for a head. Sometimes called Penny woodens they were so named because they were cheap to make and varied on dedsign by what was available.
Some of the dolls had their own classifications. depending on where they were from. If they came from Germany they were often considered Groderntal, if they had little pieces sticking up on their heads, these were called tuck comb. It loked like an old fashioned Hair comb sticking up from a hairdo.
Look at the images at the side bar. You can see similarities in these basic designs. Though some countries never had any influence in each oother, it is interesting note the similar construction of their dolls.
Though not truly aPeg wooden or Penny Wooden or other type, we can see from these images that the same basic configuration of doll construction has been around since the fourth century BC as can be seen by the images. Do you see similarities? |
