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Description
10" (25 cm.) Porcelain shoulder with black painted hair enhanced by stippling lines at the forehead, painted blue side-glancing eyes, closed mouth, rosy cheeks, wooden arms, skirt-covered lower body which is formed a hundreds of folded papers, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: for the French market, circa 1865. Value Points: wonderfully preserved "fortune-telling" doll whose skirt is formed of papers, each having an amusing hand-written French language fortune.