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Description
8" (20 cm.) A Grodnertal wooden doll with painted hair and facial features, jointing at shoulders and hips, has a bone pin extending from one foot for balancing, and two extended ball shaped counterweights to create the balancing effect. The doll poses upon its original elegantly-shaped platform with bone-carved balancing plate. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1850, inspired by the popular acrobatic themes of the early/mid-19th century, the balancing toys were created in both Germany and France. Value Points: very rare early toy in perfect state of preservation.