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Description
18" (46 cm.) Swivel head on matching shoulder plate,blue glass
enamel inset eyes with spiral threading,dark eyeliner,painted
lashes,feathered brows,accented nostrils and eye corners,closed
mouth with upturned lip corners in dainty smiling
expression,brunette human hair wig in upswept coiffure,kid
body,wearing antique linen dress,undergarments,stockings,shoes.
Condition: generally excellent,two small craquelure on bottom of
front shoulderplate. Comments: Leon Casimir Bru,this is likely the
smiling poupee which Bru offered in the 1873 L'Annuaire du
Commerce described as having "tetes caoutchouc",literally heads of
rubber,a variation of gutta percha; the luxury dolls firms such as
Bru and Huret were intrigued by the possible use of these variant
materials in doll-making,but efforts were evidently unpopular and
short lived as few examples are found today. Value Points: rare
doll,few examples are known to exist,with fine quality of
modeling.