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Description
21" (53 cm.) All-cloth doll with pressed molded face and
features,painted complexion and features,shaded blue eyes,thick
dark upper eyeliner,painted lashes,feathered brows,closed mouth
with row of painted teeth,brunette human hair wig stitched on
original muslin cap,muslin stitch-jointed body with oil-painted
lower arms and legs,bare feet,antique
dress,pinafore,undergarments. Condition: generally excellent.
Marks: (Rollinson red stamp on back torso). Comments: Gertrude
Rollinson,inventor and patent holder of the distinctive cloth
doll,produced by the Utley company of Holyoke,Massachusetts,circa
1920. Value Points: very artistic painting of the rare doll,few
examples exist and virtually none in this fine state of
preservation.