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Description
17" (43 cm.) Carved wooden doll with one piece oval head, strong throat and torso with defined waist, inset enamel eyes with dark liner and tiny dot lashes and brows, black human hair wig drawn under a cap, cloth upper arms, wooden lower arms, simple wooden legs with dowel-jointing at hips and knees. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: English, circa 1780. Value Points: well-preserved early doll with strong presence, wearing original silk woven costume with metallic woven trim, undergarments, leather stitched-on boots.