$20,000
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Description
18" (46 cm.) Cloth doll with pressed and oil-painted complexion, hair and facial features, center-parted hair with two shaded ringlet curls in front of each stitch-shaped ear, and then forming into ringlet curls that tumble onto her nape, outlined brown eyes, lightly stroked brows, rounded nose, closed mouth, firmly stuffed body with stitch jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, defined separately-stitched thumbs, oil-painted hands and lower legs, painted black ankle boots with lacing, antique gown. Condition: very very worn original oil-painted finish on hair, face, arms and legs, nose a bit flattened, twill body cover age-stained, old repairs at wrists. Comments: circa 1865, Izannah Walker, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Value Points: important and American doll worthy of love despite her already well-loved state.