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Description
3 3/4" (10 cm.) One-piece bisque torso, peg-jointed bisque arms and legs, depicting a man as circus jester, with black sculpted hair beneath jauntily-perched brimmed hat, painted facial features, and having sculpted and painted jester costume, including blue shirt with pom-poms and white ruffled collar, striped colorful short pants, white leggings, flat black shoes. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: circa 1865, for the French market. Value Points: very rare model with wonderful painted costume and expressively posed face and hat. The doll has a blue ribbon award from the 1986 UFDC convention.