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Description
19" (48 cm.) Felt swivel head with pressed and painted facial features, brown side-glancing eyes, fringed lashes and brows, closed mouth, blonde mohair wig, jointed arms and legs. Condition: generally excellent, restoration to apron taffeta. Marks: Lenci (original parchment label "Breuil" and ink-lettered "Cervinia Valle d'Aosta") Lenci BH/04 (original paper label on box). Comments: Lenci, model BH/4, 1940s, wearing costume of the Breuil-Cervinia region of Italy. Value Points: beautifully-preserved doll with black felt skirt and coiffe decorated with die-cut flowers, carrying crook with felt flowers, and preserved in original labeled box.