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Description
14" (36 cm.) All-wooden doll with carved socket head, intaglio brown painted eyes with white eyedots, lightly-feathered brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with very full lips, original brunette mohair tacked-on bobbed wig, wooden spring-jointed body. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Schoenhut Doll Pat. Jan 17th 1911 USA. Comments: Schoenhut, circa 1912. Value Points: in unplayed with condition, wearing original Schoenhut costume, cap, shoes with grommet-edged holes and knit teddy, and presented in original display box which unfolds to reveal so many ways the doll can be posed as it is "jointed with patent steel spring hinges having double spring tensions and swivel connections", along with the admonition "Do not soak the doll in water". Ex-Collection Spielzeug Museum, Switzerland.