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23" (58 cm.) doll. 24" x 28" box. A wooden box with paper lithographed cover and image depicting two little girls sewing has well-fitted interior centered by a bisque-head doll with brown glass inset eyes, painted lashes and brows, open mouth, four porcelain teeth, pierced ears, brunette mohair wig, composition body jointed at shoulders and hips, wearing original muslin chemise. Along with the doll is a child's tin toy sewing machine, numerous bolts of fabric with original blue silk ties, bone-carved sewing tools, scissors, spools of thread, and sundry. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: G.K. 44-30. Comments: doll by Gebruder Kuhnlenz, the boxed menage of sewing ephemera was offered in Etrennes catalogs of Parisian department stores, circa 1890, designed to inspire young girls in needlework. Value Points: fine original state of preservation of the rare needlework menage.