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

Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938)

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

I really love the smiling faces on these two and the way she seems to lean a bit against him

Drawing size: 10 3/4" x 9 1/8"

and each reflecting its individual maker

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,