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Description
12" (30 cm.) A bisque swivel-head young lad with bisque shoulder plate, blue glass enamel inset eyes, painted lashes and feathered brows, closed mouth with accented lips, brunette mohair wig over cork pate, carton torso, wire upper arms and legs, bisque forearms, and paper mache lower legs, is standing behind a cart with three metal spoked wheels which supports a French woven hotte basket laden generously with silk fruits and flowers that the lad is offering for sale; the doll is attached to the cart by a metal rod into his body. When wound, the young man walks briskly along, pushing his cart, his head turning side to side. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Gustav Vichy, circa 1870. Value Points: delightful mechanical doll functions well, and is all original with superb original elaborate silk costume, cap, and basket of goodies.