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Description
20" (51 cm.) Felt swivel head with slender heart-shaped face and elongated throat, painted facial features, heavy-modeled eyelids, blue painted eyes with decorative glaze, white eyedots, arched brows, painted upper lashes, accented nostrils, closed mouth with full lips, blushed cheeks, blonde mohair wig with soft curls, decorative felt roses in hair, elongated slender body and limbs with jointing at shoulders and hips, feet posed for high heels. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Lenci, style 15, 1933. Value Points: an especially beautiful doll with exquisite painting and modeling, superb state of preservation including original pink organdy ruffled gown with felt applique roses, organdy petticoat, pantalets, pink felt slippers. The actual doll is shown in the book, Lenci, The History and the Dolls by Nancy Lazenby, page 62.