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Description
16" (41 cm.) All firmly-pressed black wool felt with swivel head, applied felt eye whites and lips, tinted nostrils, black shoe-button eye pupils, black wiry frizzed hair, very plump torso, jointing at shoulders and hips, short plump legs. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Lenci, the doll was shown in the first Lenci advertisement of 1920, and is one of the rare earliest models. Value Points: wonderfully-preserved, with original rush skirt that is interwoven with felt ribbons, wooden necklace with three carved wooden animals, carved animal earrings.