Flanders' Babies
The wooden jointed dolls common in the early part of the
nineteenth century, and now almost entirely superseded by “wax dolls.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Flanders' Babies from Fact Monster:
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