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Description
20" (51 cm.) Black-complexioned paper mache head with tightly-curled textured sculpted hair, round brown glass inset side-glancing eyes, thickly-sculpted short brows, rounded broad nose, closed mouth with full lips, very plump cheeks, brown composition and wooden fully-jointed body, antique boy's costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Leo Moss, early 1900s. Value Points: wonderfully characterized model with very expressive features of a young lad. From the Myla Perkins collection, featured in museum exhibitions and in her book, Black Dolls (Collector Books, 1993), page 16.