Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s found sign and signed on the bottom

and signed on the bottom with what I believe is a Japanese character or two

This one is a bit of a mystery to me

and the good faith of her teacher Miss Crout

and seem quite a rarity

Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s found sign and signed on the bottomQuite a set! All made by the same young person, it appears hand drawn, ink and watercolor on light weight card, cut out by hand, most of the figures with tabs added on reverse for standing them up. And quite a cast of characters mother and father, a bunch of daughters and a son, two women who might be aunts or nannies or teachers , and one older, with patches on her apron, I take for a maid. And then a couple of smaller scale, cartoonish looking boys,