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27" (69 cm.) Bisque swivel head on kid-edged bisque shoulderplate with modeled bosom and shoulderblades, blue glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner, painted lashes, brushstroked and feathered brows, rose-blushed eyeshadow, accent dots at eye corners, shaded nostrils, closed mouth with defined space between the shaded and outlined lips, pierced ears, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, slender kid torso, kid-over-wooden upper arms, bisque forearms with separately sculpted fingers, hinged thighs with kid cover, jointed wooden lower legs. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Bru Jne 12 (head and shoulders). Bebe Bru...(paper label on torso). Comments: Leon Casimir Bru, circa 1886. Value Points: lovely large Bru bebe with signed and matched body, wearing blue silk vintage style dress (matching bonnet included), and antique fitted bebe stays, pantalets, knit stockings, cream silk and frou-frou bonnet and cream leather shoes signed "Bru Jne Paris"; with additional antique white embroidered best dress. Ex-Mildred Seeley collection. The doll was featured, wearing this blue dress and bonnet, in many of the books written by the doll author and teacher Mildred Seeley, and was acquired from the Seeley Family Collection in the auction Magnifique in 2005; the doll has been preserved in that collection until this time.