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Description
10" (25 cm.) Each has carved wooden head with highly-characterized features depicting a child from a holiday chorus, with carved details of open mouth as though singing or playing trumpet, or solemn closed mouth as a candle-bearer, some tinted detail of features, yarn hair, cloth body. Condition: generally excellent, some dustiness. Marks: (several have original paper label "an Original Avis Lee doll 1941"). Comments: Avis Lee, the Chicago dollmaker, from her series of Christmas carolers, and also including Rose Greenhow, with original partial label. Value Points: the seldom-found sought-after American wood carver has created a series of highly-distinctive characters, each with original artist-made costume.