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Description
14" (38 cm.) Bisque head with flanged neck, large blue glass side-glancing googly eyes with pronounced irises, black eyeliner, dark painted curly lashes angled windblown to the side with two accent dots at lower rims, lightly feathered brows, tiny button-shaped nose, tiny closed mouth with heart-shaped pursed lips, painted brown hair with defined side-part and hair locks brushed acorss the forehead, original muslin body with jointing at shoulders and hips, original antique costume comprising green felt flannel boy's suit with matching cap and shoes. Marks: 1403/30 Virginia Short for Ginny 368379 copr. by Oscar Hitt Germany. Condition: one-piece reglue at top of head without any painting restoration. Comments: the painted hair variation of the 1920s wide-eyed child designed by American illustrator, Oscar Hitt, under license from George Borgfeldt in 1927, and made in Germany. The Oscar Hitt trademark was listed by Borgfeldt in their 1927 catalog, offered with variations of hair (painted or wigged), and as a slender child (this doll and #24) or as a chubby toddler (#22). Value Points: the highly characterized features of this, one of the world's rarest dolls, is underscored by the wonderful painted detail of hair which, charmingly, appears to be blowing in the opposite direction of the doll's angled lashes, with finest quality of bisque, painting, original body and original costume.