$550
Sold
sold
Click image to enlarge
Description
10" (25 cm.) Shaped kid-leather face with highly-characterized angular features, black bead eyes, tinted lips, wig, shaped wooden and kid body and original sewn- on costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: C.H. White, English, early 1800s, who created a series of these remarkable peddler dolls in traditional costumes, each with a woven basket filled with various notions, sewing supplies, books, toys and other geegaws. Value Points: wonderfully preserved example of the classic British figure with especially laden basket of wares, and an old paper reading "A note came with this doll saying, ‘The doll was sold to help pay off Father's debts' Lisabeth Croft 1860' " (that original note is no longer attached). The peddler is on original base under glass dome.