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Description
18" (46 cm.) Pink-tinted porcelain shoulderhead, black sculpted hair in centerpart and with short uniform finger curls, painted brown eyes, red and black upper eyeliner, single-stroke brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth, muslin stitch-jointed body, kid arms. Condition: generally excellent, arms are old replacements (original arms are included). Comments: Germany, circa 1865. Value Points: lovely complexion and rare brown eyes; attached to the doll is an old handwritten note reading "Harriet Beecher Stowe's doll given by her to her niece who gave it to Adelaide Agnes Kaiser" and then describing the fragments of original costumes which are also included here. Other notes with the doll indicate subsequent owners including Eleanor Greene who was an early member of the "Nellie W. Perkins Doll & Miniature Society of N.H." and Betty Thatcher of New Hampshire who in 2000 wrote about the doll with the poignant note "Sometimes I wish the dolls themselves could talk". The doll has a blue ribbon award from Doll Collectors of America in 1987.