Please help me to identify the item and signatures. Thank you

[powerofreading]

Please help to identify the handpainted doll head in the frame, also the signatures in the back of the frame. 

[argon38]

To draw a firm line under my nonsense... I CAN see the creepy figure. It is totally obvious and unmissable. I just couldn't resist playing along with the first comment on the thread (which I'm quite sure was meant as a joke).

[bayp26]

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@argon38 wrote:

To draw a firm line under my nonsense... I CAN see the creepy figure. It is totally obvious and unmissable. I just couldn't resist playing along with the first comment on the thread (which I'm quite sure was meant as a joke).

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What comment?

[bigdeals.etc]

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@maxine*j wrote:

It looks like two signatures.  If so, I'd guess that one person did the manipulated-photograph hallwa, and the other person did the doll., then both signed and dated the back of the frame.  Is that right?

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If you read aloud that signature in a dark hallway during either of those dates, something’s bound to happen.

OMG I just realized that TODAY IS 8/10!!!

[maxine*j]

I'm relieved to be unable to read the signature(s)!

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[sonomabarn67]

I was having a problem with some rogue Beanie Babies on another thread. Related or??? You be the judge.

[powerofreading]

There is not any marking inside.

[powerofreading]

The back of the creepy girl is (the hallway) print, the only doll head is handpainted with real human hair.

It is scary and creepy art, kind of I don't like it either.   

I just want to know who is Artist. 

[argon38]

So nobody else sees Richard?

[mmadigan]

I did I did, until Maxine mention two names and then I saw Paul Land  with the final L in Paul and the first L in Land being the same, artistic license.   Richard sounds like a good bet.  Does the last name start with H  and end ly  something like Hennely

[argon38]

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@mmadigan wrote:

 Does the last name start with H  and end ly  something like Hennely

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Yes, I was thinking along those lines - but now you bring up Maxine's double signature proposal again, I'm wondering if the "H" might actually be a "J. C..." (as in J. Connally or something?). So maybe two signatures after all (which would rule out Richard).  🤔

[mmadigan]

My first thought was a J for the second name.  Then I remembered a genealogy problem I had for 20 years where a name was said to be Gloggert based on a written church record.  This name shows up in no records which led me to think the name was done in script which was being misread.  I decided the Gl was really an H which made more sense when looking at other records.  So now I have a slight bias when see something which can be  an H

[evry1nositswindy]

Over the 8/10:  first name Gerhard?

[argon38]

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@evry1nositswindy wrote:

Over the 8/10:  first name Gerhard?

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Ohhh... that's more promising than Richard. I couldn't make the first letter look like an R, but the other letters seemed to fit. Never thought of Gerhard.

[evry1nositswindy]

Last name Hammerly?  There is an artist by that name, Gerhard Hammerly.  I thought that the first number of 8 of 10 (made) and the second number was the date (11/17), but just my guess.

[argon38]

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@evry1nositswindy wrote:

Last name Hammerly?  There is an artist by that name, Gerhard Hammerly.

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I can't find any trace of an artist named Gerhard Hammerly, are you sure you have that right?

8/10 as a limitation number is a good thought.