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Description
15" (38 cm.) Black cotton doll with flat-dimensional face with oil-painted features,large outlined brown eyes in half-moon shape,defined nose,brows and lips,coral-painted lower lip,stitch jointing at shoulders,hips,and knees,antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Maud Witherspoon Rag Doll Manufacturing Company,circa 1905. Maud Witherspoon founded the doll company in order to support her widowed mother and younger sister,determined to manufacture the very cloth dolls that she had made for pleasure as a child while growing up in the French quarter. Value Points: the rare doll has fine original finish and wears her original costume.