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Description
11" (28 cm.) Each has paper mache shoulder head with painted facial features, each with unique facial features, one with closed eyes, flat-line smile and brunette bobbed hair; the other with slit-shaped eyes with tiny white eyedots, wide impish smile and orange mohair wig; each with original simple muslin body and original raggedy costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: circa 1920, promotional dolls for English Bisto Gravy, based upon advertising illustrations by Will Owens and designed to convey the notion that the kids were savoring the aroma of Bisto Gravy. Value Points: all-original and rarely found dolls are perfectly-preserved.