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Description
Felt swivel head with pressed and painted facial features, brown side-glancing eyes, lashes, dark eye shadow, closed mouth, brunette mohair wig drawn into an elaborately braided chignon, cloth/felt body with jointing at shoulders and hips. The doll is wearing a vibrant red felt gown with black velvet yoke and embroidered silk apron, undergarments, red felt shoes, and a red felt cap with metallic gilt braid, and with original cloth label and parchment label "Engadine". Generally excellent. Italian, Lenci, late 1930s. The doll is shown in the large photograph of Shirley Temple's collection, Appendix D of this book, at the far left on the second shelf.