#215

American Wooden Child by Schoenhut With Wonderful Circus Toy
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Description
16" (41 cm.) All-wooden doll with socket head, decalomania eyes, painted lashes and brows, closed mouth with painted teeth, brunette mohair wig, all-wooden spring-jointed body, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Schoenhut Doll, Pat. Jan. 17, '11 USA & Foreign Countries. Comments: Schoenhut, circa 1917. Value Points: included is circus cart whose metal spoked wheels center a wooden barrel with lithographed paper cover of clowns and circus, upon which a Schoenhut clown is standing, and which is being pulled by a cast metal horse; the cart is marked "No. 28 G.A. Heimer, patent no. 1234472 July 24, 1917".