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Description
8 1/2" (22 cm.) Solid domed bisque shoulder head with unusual yellow painted pate under original blonde mohair wig, painted facial features, blue painted eyes with upper eyeliner and painted lashes, single stroke brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth with center accented lips, stretched-kid-over-wooden body, shapely waist, dowel-jointing at shoulders, hips and knees, bisque forearms and hands. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1865. Value Points: the rare dreamy-eyed model with beautiful expression has original rare articulated wooden body and bisque hands, and is wearing her original mauve silk gown, undergarments, leather slippers.