Wonderful Old Carved Figure, Presumed Very Early Bedpost Doll antique port hole style mirror on a mantle

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Wonderful Old Carved Figure, Presumed Very Early Bedpost Doll antique port hole style mirror on a mantleWhen I purchased this, in Maine, I had a bit of a feeling that it might be a very very old carved chess queen, but now I believe it is in fact a bedpost doll, as I have found a very very similar one sold at auction by Pook & Pook, which cites it as 18th century American, likely from New England. (I have included a photo of that one, which is at far right in the image of three sold together.) From what I have read, while some of these dolls were the in