A GREENBANK woman's unique tribute to the victims of World War I is attracting widespread attention at the Logan City Historical Museum.
Lyn Ryan's doll display has been on show at the Kingston museum since late August and is fascinating local history buffs and school tour groups alike.
It includes more than 250 antique and hand-made dolls, all dressed in the traditional clothing of most of the countries that fought in the war.
Standing alongside the museum's companion display of fashion dolls, Ms Ryan's tribute is now part of the largest doll display open to the public in the Brisbane area since 1996.
Ms Ryan is the president of the Brisbane Doll Society.
She said her collection was put together over more than three decades and had always generated interest.
"The dolls have recently been on display in libraries in Logan (as part of a World War I series)," she said.
"Personally I think they are interesting because people can see the different national costumes and how people used to dress.
"There was a school group in here the other day looking at them and there were lots of giggles. It just appeals to everyone."
The display includes a doll wearing an outfit hand-stitched by Beaudesert woman Gladys Dennis, who was a founding member of the Brisbane Doll Society.
"It (the doll) was donated to me by Ann Delahaye of Gleneagle who inherited it from her mother Gladys," Ms Ryan said.
"The dress is in the style of the Pearly Kings and Queens (a famous charity group from London)."
Also part of the display are French-inspired 'pipe-cleaner dolls' handmade by Ms Ryan's mother, Elizabeth Allen.
Ms Ryan said it was a wonderful tribute to her mother.
"Mum would be in her element," she said.
"She never had the opportunities that I'm having to display them, she used to have groups go to the house instead."
The doll display will be shown at the museum until mid December.
The Logan City Historical Museum Society is on Milky Way in Kingston.
