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16" (41 cm.) Portrait dolls of stockinette with stitched and painted facial features depict an aged man and woman, each with benign smile, white mohair wig, wrapped fabric body, wearing artist-made cloth country costumes and wooden shoes, the man holding a French newspaper, and the woman holding a little baby in blanket wrap. Generally excellent. Made by Bernard Ravca, late 1930s. The dolls appear in a photograph of Shirley's doll collection taken in the late 1930s, shown in Appendix C.