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Description
20" (51 cm.) Paper mache shoulder head, oval face and elongated throat, black sculpted short curly hair with detailed painting of curls around the forehead and long painted curly sideburns, painted facial features, brown upper glancing eyes, black upper eyeliner, single-stroke brows, closed mouth with accented lips, original firmly-stuffed muslin body with kid lower arms and separately-sculpted fingers. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1860, maker uncertain. Value Points: superb all-original condition, the rare model with deeply-sculpted hair and sideburns is wearing his original folklore costume of Appenzell, Switzerland comprising wool pants with embroidered leather suspenders, shirt, red woolen vest, leggings, leather shoes. Ex-collection Estelle Johnston.