#109

Rare German Bisque Double-Faced Doll by Hertel and Schwab with Googly Face
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$2,400
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Description
13" (33 cm.) Solid domed bisque socket head with alternate faces; one face having sculpted orange hair in the Campbell Kid manner along with blue glass side-glancing eyes, painted curly lashes, feathered brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with watermelon slice-shaped smile, accented lips, marked 168 on throat; and the other face having brush-stroked hair, small blue glass sleep eyes, painted curly lashes, feathered brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with modeled tongue and teeth; composition and wooden ball-jointed toddler body with side-hip jointing, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Hertel and Schwab, circa 1915. Value Points: the rarity is not only in the molded hair Campbell Kid, but in the novelty of a two-faced doll, and with great bisque and painting.