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Description
13" (33 cm.) All-cloth doll with deeply-pressed and oil painted facial features and hair, single-seam head, reddish-brown hair in swirling curls across the forehead, painted brown eyes in deeply-set sockets, tinted brows, closed mouth with smiling expression and impressed laughter lines, padded armature frame with stockinette cover, mitten hands, costume may be original. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Kathe Kruse (foot). Comments: Kathe Kruse, circa 1922, the model is known as "Schlenkerchen". Value Points: one of the rarest and most endearing of the Kruse children, with well-preserved original facial and hair painting.