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Description
27" (69 cm.) Bisque socket head, blue glass eyes which open and close or turn side-to-side by unique mechanism inside the head, dark eyeliner, painted curly lashes, brushstroked and multi-feathered brows, accented eye corners, shaded nostrils, open mouth, shaded and outlined lips, row of porcelain teeth, pierced ears, brunette human hair wig over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully-jointed body, nicely costumed. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Tete Jumeau SGDG 12 (incised, head) Bebe Jumeau (body). Comments: Emile Jumeau, circa 1891, with movable eye system deposed by Fouquet and Douville in that year; the dolls with unique cut-out design at the back of the head were commission by the two men from the Jumeau firm, although few examples were ever made. Value Points: very rare model, especially in this larger size 12, with complete and perfectly functioning rare eye system, beautiful bisque and painting, original body and body finish, original costume including leather shoes signed "12 Paris Depose" with bee symbol.