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Description
21" (53 cm.) All-stockinette doll with deeply impressed features,painted brown eyes with deeply set eye sockets,brown painted hair,shaded nostrils,closed mouth with impressed dimples,stitch jointing at shoulders,elbows,hips and knees,stitch- defined fingers with separate thumbs. Condition: structurally excellent,original finish albeit very scrubbed finish. Comments: American,circa 1890,the doll was commissioned for the J.B. Sheppard department store of Philadelphia,although the actual maker remains a mystery. Value Points: the cheerful fellow wearing wonderful antique costume,and owns two extremely worn little teddies with wool costumes and shoe button eyes.