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Description
15" (38 cm.) Bisque shoulder head,cobalt blue glass enamel inset
eyes,dark eyeliner,painted lashes,feathered brows,accented
nostrils and eye corners,open mouth with outlined lips,two rows of
porcelain teeth,unpierced ears,blonde human hair wig over cork
pate,French carton torso forming into a full cone-shaped skirt
with wheeled base which contains clockwork mechanism,bisque lower
arms,pretty costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments:
attributed to Jules Steiner who deposed the design for the gliding
doll,circa 1860; when wound the doll glides along as though a
child walking,waves arms up and down and cries "mama" in a clear
voice. Value Points: well-functioning movement on the early doll
with lovely bisque.