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13" (33 cm.) Bisque swivel head on kid-edged bisque shoulder plate, pale blue glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner, lushly-painted lashes and brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth with accented lips, pierced ears, brunette mohair wig, all-wooden poupee body with dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles and with ball-swivel waist. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: C (head and shoulders). Comments: Leon Casimir Bru, his deposed smiling face poupee, on original deposed wooden articulated body, circa 1872. Value Points: very fine all-original rare smiling doll wearing elaborate silk dress with matching bonnet, undergarments, stockings, leather boots, and with little antique necessaire, and holding an all-bisque mignonette with brown glass eyes, peg-jointed limbs, brunette mohair wig, and wearing all-original white pique taufling ensemble.