Rare American Cloth Character Boy by Martha Chase with Side-Part Brown Hair

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12" (30 cm.) All-cloth doll with pressed and oil-painted head,complexion,hair,and facial features,brown painted hair in thick-impasto painting technique,with side part and little curls at the side forehead,painted brown eyes,white eye dots,red and black upper eyeliner,long curly lashes,brown single stroke brows,stitched ears,oil-painted stitch-jointed body,separate thumbs,defined fingers,wearing fine antique costume including great coat with velvet trim,and having an antique photograph pin depicting man with side-parted hair. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Martha Chase,circa 1920. Value Points: petite size,brown hair color,brown eyes,and very rare hair style.