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25" (64 cm.) and 27". The larger with bisque socket head, brunette mohair bobbed wig, marked Unis France 301, the smaller has celluloid socket head, blonde mohair wig with side-coiled braids; both dolls with open mouth, blue glass eyes, teeth, composition and wooden ball-jointed body, and wearing original or custom-detailed folk costume, including Normandy coiffe on one. Generally excellent. Circa 1930. The French doll was gifted to Shirley Temple by a young French girl, Ginette Marboeuf-Hoyet, known as "The Shirley Temple of France" after winning a look-alike contest sponsored by a Paris newspaper, according to an article in the May 1936 LA Times.