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Description
12" (30 cm.) Bisque socket head with amber tinted complexion, sculpted blue flat-topped hat with yellow band and black brim, painted black hair, blue glass googly eyes, feathered brows, closed mouth with impish smile, composition and wooden ball-jointed body, wearing blue uniform. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Dep Elite J 2/0. Comments: Max Handwerck, circa 1925, from his series of "helmet googlies", the dolls were modeled to represent soldiers of various countries, this example being Japan. Value Points: among the rarest models of the helmet googly series, with excellent detail of sculpting and painting.