#227

American Black Cloth Folk Doll with Shoe-Button Eyes
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$250
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Description

20" (51 cm.) Center-stitched black cotton cloth doll with shaped forehead, cut-out eye sockets with outline stitched, cotton eye whites, black shoe-button pupils, no definition of nose or mouth, black fleecy yarn hair, black cotton softly stuffed body with shaped arms and legs, wearing cotton dress with white apron, undergarments, sunbonnet. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: American, circa early 20th century. Value Points: imaginative construction details of the well-preserved doll.