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Description
11" (28 cm.) An alternate doll head is posed on either side of a
muslin torso,and designed so that the full-length costume which
accompanies each head will hide the alternate head. When the doll
is flipped over,the second head and second costume appear. Each
head has sewn-on lithographed face with pressed-mask
features,including black child with brown eyes,painted black
hair,red hair ribbons,smiling expression with double row of
teeth,wearing red bandana and cotton costume with apron; and white
child with blue eyes,curly blonde hair,and wearing original blue
muslin dress and apron. Condition: generally excellent. Comments:
Albert Bruckner,the dolls appeared in the Babyland Rag Series of
Horsman,circa 1915. Value Points: fine original condition of the
topsy-turvy dolls.