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Description
20" (51 cm.) All black cotton sateen with oval-shaped head, cut-out eye sockets with thickly-embroidered edges to simulate lashes, matching brows, center seam with stitch-shaped nose, black shoe-button eyes, embroidered lips with tiny tongue tip, black tightly-fleeced yarn hair, stitch-jointed at shoulders and hips. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: American folk doll, circa 1885. Value Points: imaginative construction details on the well-preserved unique doll with original handmade dress, undergarments, stitched shoes.