How To Repair Wax Head

Ah, yes, one of the loves of my doll collecting life - but Fashion out of my price range.  Until the internet, that is.  Of class, it's fortunate that I tin repair dolls also....

Here is my nigh recent acquisition.  I purchased this little beauty on layaway from a very kind and helpful doll dealer named Carla on Cerise Lane.  Go to www.rubylane.com and check out her shop 'Oldeclectics'.  She has the most wonderful dolls, at reasonable prices, and is simply a sweety.

This wax or wax over (which I believe she is, though the wax blanket is very thick and makes her appear to be a poured wax) is a fashion doll.  (Note the tiny waist.)  I am not certain even so whether she was meant to exist a lady fashion or a child fashion doll.  More written report is indicated.  At the moment I am going to dress her as an older child, say around 12 or so.  (And yes, the child fashion dolls had that teeny, tiny waist like their corset-wearing mommies.)

She looks a bit similar something out of a horror movie right now.  At least, that is what my granddaughter tells me!  The doll has sleep optics, which came loose in transport and will have to be reset, and as you can see - no arms.  I purchase a china head body on EBay (sans head).  It had a lovely pair of leather artillery, and I volition eventually act like Dr. Frankenstein and take parts from both and put them together. Her body is finely made.  It is weighted and so she can sit and pretty clean for its age, so it will require piddling work.  She even came with her fiddling linen shoes that I am going to attempt to restore.

Her hair is going to be a claiming.  It is incised, or pressed into the wax and not a wig, and the original wired braids that went around the sides are withal intact (if filthy!).  This is an indicator that this was a fine, more expensive doll such as those made bu English firms similar Pierotti and Montonari, as the maker would non have the time to press the hair in unless they were going to make more money.  (Think today's retail!)  This is a wonderful matter - except it ways that I have to make clean the pilus on the head!  You clean old mohair with lighter fluid or paint thinner.  Now, recall about that - lighter fluid on a wax or wax covered caput.  Aye, you tin can see the dilemma.  I know how I am going to tackle information technology and volition certificate as I go along so y'all can encounter whether or non it works!

So, of grade, the caput itself has to be cleaned.  I accept done some research on this and where one restoration artist swears by non-acetone boom smooth cleaner, another shouts 'Don't use that!'  Woolite is recommended by ane and nixed past another.  And then is common cold cream.   Hmmmm...we'll encounter.

Anyway, enjoy the 'before' pictures.  Hopefully I will post some of the 'subsequently' soon.  I am dying to have her completely restored!

How To Repair Wax Head,

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