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Description
10" (25 cm.) An alternate doll head is posed on either side of a
muslin torso,and designed so that the full-length costume which
accompanies each head will hide the alternate head. When the doll
is flipped over,the second head and second costume appear. Each
head is stuffed solid with lithograph-printed face depicting a
black-complexioned child with coral-shaded lips,and a white-
complexioned child with brown curly hair; each doll has factory
original costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments:
American,commercially made,attribution uncertain,circa 1890. Value
Points: especially nice detail of facial expressions on the rare
topsy-turvy.