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Description
16" (41 cm.) Bisque socket head, deep blue glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner, painted lashes, brush-stroked and multi-feathered brows, widely arched brush-stroked brows with feathering detail, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth, outlined and shaded lips, pierced ears, brunette human hair wig over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully jointed body. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 7 (head, and artist's checkmarks) Jumeau Medaille d'Or Paris (body). Comments: Emile Jumeau, circa 1886. Value Points: pretty bebe is wearing her original (very frail) silk couturier dress from the workshops of Ernestine Jumeau, original undergarments, maroon knit stockings and burgundy kidskin shoes with gilt stamped lettering "Bebe Jumeau Med d'Or Paris Depose".