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Description
14" (36 cm.) Bisque shoulder head,cobalt blue glass inset
eyes,dark eyeliner,painted lashes and brows,accented nostrils and
eye corners,open mouth with outlined lips and double row of
teeth,carton torso and full length carton skirt which encloses
early version of the deposed mechanism with some wooden
parts,hidden wheeled base. When wound the doll glides forward and
in circles,raising arms and crying "mama". Condition: generally
excellent,mechanism functions well. Marks: J. Steiner
fabricant,Rue de Saintonge,No. 25,Paris (original paper label on
carton skirt). Comments: Jules Steiner,circa 1867. Value Points:
lovely antique costume,beautiful face with rich cobalt
eyes,original Steiner paper label on the early model of the
deposed poupee.