>>8624309Clowns are also not considered dolls.
This is all late early 1900s tax shit because german territories were trying to sell toys for way cheaper than American toy companies, so they started taxing dolls pretty heavily. Clowns were excluded from being called dolls, likely because Germany wasn't selling those.
So you're not going to get any references toward articulated toys, like army soldiers, as being called dolls until the 1900s.
