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Description
22" (56 cm.) All-cloth doll with pressed and oil-painted facial
features and hair,deeply-defined eye sockets with incised
eyeliner,brown painted eyes,brown painted hair with stippling onto
forehead and matching brown brows,accented nostrils,stitched
ears,closed mouth with very full lips,stockinette stitch-jointed
body,oil-painted lower arms and legs,antique costume appears
original. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: known as the
"Philadelphia Baby",the distinctive doll was commissioned for the
J.B. Sheppard Department Store of Philadelphia toward the end of
the 19th century; the quality of artistry and workmanship is
superb and distinctive,yet the actual maker remains unknown. Value
Points: rarely found American doll with superb sculpting details
and fine original painted finish. Ex-collection Evelyn Ackerman
from which it was acquired for the Blackler Collection.