{"id":1798,"date":"2010-05-17T16:34:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2010-12-25T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T19:29:43","slug":"german-doll-head-pen-wiper-c-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1798","title":{"rendered":"German doll head pen wiper, c.1900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when a bisque doll&#8217;s body breaks? Naturally you turn the unbroken doll head in to a pen wiper! At least that is exactly what someone did in the early 1900&#8217;s to recycle a broken toy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3638.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1799\" title=\"IMG_3638\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3638.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3638-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unmarked German bisque doll head with a human hair wig,\u00a0stationary glass eyes, painted lashes, eyebrows &amp; mouth<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3639.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1800\" title=\"IMG_3639\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3639.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3639-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Home made pen wipers were common household items and were used to remove excess ink from dip pens. Once the ink was on the page, a paper blotter was used to soak in the excess ink so it would not smear. This pen wiper measures 3-1\/2&#8243; tall<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1801\" title=\"IMG_3640\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3640.jpg 397w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3640-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is an illustration from a Victorian craft book, showing how to make a decorative pen wiper, with the following description: &#8220;Girls are always trying to find something which they can make to delight their papas, and a gay little pen-wiper with fresh uninked leaves rarely comes amiss to a man who likes an orderly writing-table&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/059c-300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2047\" title=\"059c-300\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/059c-300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitheaven.com\">KnitHeaven<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when a bisque doll&#8217;s body breaks? Naturally you turn the unbroken doll head in to a pen wiper! At least that is exactly what someone did in the early 1900&#8217;s to recycle a broken toy. Unmarked German bisque doll head with a human hair wig,\u00a0stationary glass eyes, painted lashes, eyebrows &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,59],"tags":[127,16],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-household","category-toy","tag-german","tag-porcelain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}