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Description
17" (43 cm.) Bisque socket head,painted facial features,unusual
half-moon-shaped upper-glancing eyes,black upper eyeliner,extended
crease at the outer eye corners,brush-stroked feathered
brows,accented eye corners and nostrils,closed mouth with beaming
smile,accented lips with upturned lip corners,row of painted
teeth,brunette mohair wig,Sonneberg composition and wooden fully-
jointed body,wearing original detailed folklore costume.
Condition: generally excellent. Marks: B.P. 5. Comments: Swaine
and Co,circa 1910,although that porcelain firm had been around
since the 1850s they were unknown in the world of dolls until 1910
when they registered "character doll heads" which they exhibited
at the Leipzeig fair and which included this extremely rare model
marked B.P. Value Points: the rarity of the doll is enhanced by
its wonderful presence,great expression,finest bisque and
painting.