Rare American Brown-Haired Cloth Lady with Rare Coiffure by Martha Chase

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15" (38 cm.) All-cloth doll with pressed and oil-painted facial features, slender-shaped face, brown sculpted hair drawn from her face into a coiled chignon at the back, painted large brown eyes, red eyeliner, curly upper lashes, single-stroke brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth in very solemn expression, oil-painted torso and limbs with stitch-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, separately-stitched thumbs. Condition: near mint. Marks: (Chase logo stamp on leg) The Chase Hospital Doll (label on back torso). Comments: Martha Chase, circa 1910, from her series of storybook characters. Value Points: perfectly-preserved doll with rare hair style and rare brown eyes.