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Description
20" (51 cm.) Black-complexioned paper mache head depicting a gentle-faced child with slight smile, black sculpted hair brushed from sides of her face and forming into two very thick vertical braids at the back of head, daintily-sculpted black brows, brown glass inset eyes with black outline, closed mouth with hint of smile, impressed dimples in cheeks, nicely shaped chin and nose, brown muslin torso, brown composition limbs, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Leo Moss, early 1900s, the doll was known as "Thelma" in the Leo Moss family according to oral tradition. Value Points: especially appealing young girl with hopeful expression, wonderfully detailed hair. From the Myla Perkins collection, featured in museum exhibitions and in her book, Black Dolls (Collector Books, 1993), page 14.