Petite American Cloth Blue-Eyed Doll by Martha Chase

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13" (33 cm.) All-cloth doll with firmly-pressed and oil-painted complexion,facial features and impasto-styled short blonde hair,painted blue eyes,red and black upper eyeliner,curly black upper lashes,nostrils,rosy full lips,rosy cheeks,stitched ears,sateen body cover,oil-painted lower limbs with stitch jointing. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Martha Chase,circa 1910. Value Points: rare petite size with impeccable original painting including delicate cheek and ear blush,original multi-layered costume,and carrying small lithographed cloth cut- and-stuffed double-sided doll.