#161

Three All-Original American Cloth Dolls from the Babyland Rag Doll Series
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$700
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Description
15" (38 cm.) Each has silkscreen printed face and hair which is stitch-attached to muslin head form,muslin body with stitch jointing at shoulders and hips,mitten hands with defined thumbs. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: from the Babyland Rag Series of Horsman,the dolls were advertised as having "life-like" faces,the Dutch boy and girl,named Jan and Greta,were offered as a premium for selling subscriptions to Children's magazine in 1908,and the third doll wears rare costume of Quaker Maid. Value Points: beautifully-preserved dolls wearing their factory original costumes,with fine detail of facial design.