A lifetime supply of doll arms on the auction block

On eBay: "Big lot of 630 antique german bisque doll arms." High bid is just $5.50 (but shipping is $39).

More photos of similar auctions at Anonymous Works.

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dbarak

Yeah, maggots or cheesy poofs. Chemically, they’re very similar.
Lobster

No, no, not 5.50 dollars. 5.5 doll hairs!
sic transit gloria C.F.A.

International arms dealer? :)
bjacques

Hans Bellmer would be all over this if he were still alive.
The Life Of Bryan

Hey, thanks for reminding me: I need to get some more mealworms for Mozilla.
Anonymous

I didn’t realize Courtney Love was still for sale.
Rich Keller

I see this and imagine a tiny little hospital tent after a tiny little battle of Gettysburg… casualties of Henry Darger’s Glandelinians.
Will/Nobilis

The only thing I could think of while reading this is. . . . “What up. . .bisque?”

I will be here all day, try the veal.
cjp

Ew! That guy is touching maggots. Doesn’t he know you should always keep at arm’s length from those things?
Doran

Reminds me of when I was a kid. Mom repaired dolls and we always had various body parts laying about the house. It was no big thing for us kids, but it would often freak out visiting neighbors.
Ugly Canuck

It looks as if someone is about to take up arms.

I mean, the photo could not be more “army”.

I ‘ope there’s no ‘arm in my comments, eh, guv’nor?
Anonymous

How many Doll-Hairs for all those Doll-Arms?
andyhavens

Well, I know where my subconscious is going for nightmare prop fodder tonight…
Robert

Yeah, they really do look like pale worms from up here.
narrowstreetsLA

MAGGOTS!
MAGGOTS!
MAGGOTS!
MAGGOTS!
MAGGOTS!
- Caroline
  
  Oh my God, I know. I can see them writhing.
Anonymous

We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us, and he was crying. He couldn’t see. We went there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile–a pile of little arms.

Col. Kurtz
Apocalypse Now
Anonymous

/ I am
Doll Parts /

/ Doll face
Doll arms /

(..with no apologies to Courtney Love)
Sweetcarovan

I have genuine “old doll phobia” (it probably has a name) and I am not too keen on maggots. I cannot quite describe how utterly nightmarish this picture is for me. Ta!
Anonymous

“I don’t like humans”
Anonymous

Play this:
http://www.secrettechnology.com/madethis/enemy6.html
Get to the end. Sample the video. Enjoy epic doll parts.
Ellavemia

With a whopping zero doll arms, I’m currently sitting on a lifetime’s supply already.
Anonymous

The Horror. The Horror.