Three Chinese Wooden Door of Hope Dolls including Two Young Boys

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8" (20 cm.) and 11". Each has carved wooden head with tinted accents to facial features, wooden cloth body with wooden lower arms. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Door of Hope Mission, 1920s. Value Points: included is elderly man with well-carved high cheek bones and intelligent gaze, young lad with black painted hair accented by feathering around his forehead; and young lad with very dark complexion and unusual hair style with wide swath of hair centering the bald front crown; each wearing original silk costume (costume on smaller boy has some frailty).