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Description
20" (51 cm.) Bisque head with flanged neck,highly-characterized
facial features including wide beaming smile with cheek
dimples,impressed and painted clown lines at the outer corners of
the brown glass inset eyes,brush-stroked wavy brows,accented
nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with painted teeth,wooden
block torso with wire upper arms and legs,wooden lower
limbs,painted red stockings and black shoes. Condition: generally
excellent. Marks: 137. Comments: attributed to Zinner and
Sohne,circa 1890. Value Points: all original with striped clown
costume and jester cap,holding tin cymbals which clap merrily
together when the bellows in his tummy is squeezed.