Rare German Felt Character Doll

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12" (30 cm.) Felt character doll with pressed facial features on center seam face,blue glass eyes,flattened nose and tiny smug- shaped impressed mouth,wild blonde hair,jointed arms and legs with over-sized hands,long brown felt fingernails,jointed hips,sewn on costume of orange and green felt with brown trim,black leather shoes. Some fading and dustiness,hair very sparse. Germany,Steiff,circa 1909,depicting Struwwelpeter (shaggy-haired Peter) from the original 1845 children's stories by Heinrich Hoffman who wrote the morality tale of Peter who he never washed or groomed,hence his unkempt hair and long fingernails.