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Description
22" (56 cm.) Pink-tinted porcelain shoulderhead, black sculpted centerparted hair with two uniform finger curls, blue painted eyes, red and black upper eyeliner, single stroke brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with upturned lip corners, muslin stitch-jointed body, leather arms. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1855. Value Points: the doll owns her original handsewn trousseau which comprises three dresses, night shirt, undergarments, apron, hooded jacket, blanket, caps, shoes. A note which accompanies the doll reads, "Boston, Nov. 27, 1854, My dear little Fanny, The bearer of this note, Mabel Lee, is an orphan whom your cousins, the orphans, found one day. She was very naked, though not very poor, as her plumpness will show..." The doll was sent to Fannie Hooper on her birthday, November 17, 1854, and was costumed by her aunt. The doll, her trousseau and story were shown in The Art of the Doll, 1700-1940 by Madeline Merrill (Hobby House, 1985), page 101 (book included).