#21

Rare Grand-Sized American Cloth Bobbed Hair Girl by Martha Chase
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$2,400
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Description
27" (69 cm.) All-cloth doll with pressed and oil-painted facial features,sculpted light brown hair in short bobbed fashion with bangs,blue upper glancing eyes,red and black upper eyeliner,upper fringed curly lashes,white eye dots,blonde brows,accented nostrils of upturned nose,closed mouth,stitch jointing of shoulders,elbows,hips and knees,wearing pretty cotton pinafore dress,undergarments,red stockings and leather shoes. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Martha Chase,circa 1910. Value Points: rare bobbed hair model in extremely rare grand size,possibly for exhibition purposes,with perfectly-preserved fine original painting. Ex-collection Kate Hoffman.