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Description
23" (58 cm.) Bisque socket head, small brown glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner, painted lashes, brush-stroked and feathered brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth, shaded space between the outlined lips, separately applied pierced ears, brunette hand-tied human hair over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully jointed body. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Depose Jumeau 11 (incised). Jumeau Medaille d'Or Paris (body). Comments: Emile Jumeau, circa 1885. Value Points: very pretty shy expression, lovely bisque, original body and body finish, wearing wonderful antique red cotton mariner dress with blue featherstitch, black knit stockings, black leather boots, straw hat.