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Description
17" (43 cm.) Felt swivel head with pressed and painted facial features, brown side-glancing eyes, fringed lashes and brows, grey eyeshadow, closed mouth with accented lower lip, blonde mohair wig with braided chignon, jointing at shoulders and hips. Condition: generally excellent, few small holes on hat and back side of apron. Comments: Italian, Lenci, series 300, model 12, 1930. Value Points: the pouty-faced girl wears an extraordinary vibrant costume of multi-colored felt, comprising purple felt skirt, teal blue apron with applique dots, green jacket with embroidered detail, yellow hat with blue felt underbrim and colorful cluster of felt flowers, original undergarments, stockings, rare shoes of black and red felt with leather heels, earrings, and carrying colorful woven market basket. The actual doll appeared on the cover of Antique Doll Collector, September 1998, and in the book, Lenci, the History and the Dolls, by Nancy Lazenby, page 90.