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Description
14" (36 cm.) All-cloth doll with stiffened oil-painted facial features and brown hair in short bobbed fashion,painted brown eyes with black outlined and painted all-around lashes,fringed brows,accented nostrils,closed mouth,accented lips,muslin stitch- jointed body with oil-painted hands and painted peach shoes,antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: The Ella Smith Doll Manufacturers of the Alabama Indestructible Baby,Roanoke Ala,Patent (illegible). Comments: Ella Smith,circa 1910. Value Points: rare model of the American studio cloth doll with all-original painting and finish,rarer bobbed hair model.