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Description
12" (30 cm.) Still tied into their original (worn) box are two
dolls with paper mache shoulder heads,painted facial features,blue
eyes,aged wrinkles and lines,modeled white thick brows,hinged
jaw,straw-filled muslin body with paper mache lower limbs,painted
shoes and socks,the doll dressed as man with sculpted white pork
chop sideburns,each doll with original wire pince-nez. Condition:
generally excellent. Comments: Germany,circa 1900,the man
represented Foxy Grandpa from the US comic strip series of the
era. The story line of Foxy Grandpa detailed the exploits of a
Grandpa who constantly out-tricked his mischievous grandchildren,a
reversal of The Katzenjammer Kids story line. As the woman in this
pair also wears pince-nez glasses,it is likely that she was
actually also Foxy Grandpa in a get-up designed to fool the
grandkids. Value Points: rare pair of dolls in perfectly-preserved
state.