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Description
6" (15 cm.) Each is all-bisque with sculpted hair and swivel
head,painted facial features,loop-jointed limbs,painted brown
ankle boots,including Max with bobbed black hair defined by
feathering,left side-glancing eyes,beaming thin-line smile; and
Moritz with exuberantly-modeled topknot and side wing curls in
reddish brown,blue right-glancing googly eyes,very full smiling
lips. Condition: Moritz has missing right thumb,small chip on each
shoulder; Max has chip on right shoulder,otherwise excellent.
Marks: 210 (arms and legs). Comments: Kestner,circa 1915,the
models were based on the characters Max and Moritz from the 19th
century children's books of Wilhelm Busch,and re-popularized in
the early 20th century American comic strip,The Katzenjammer Kids.
Value Points: amazingly accurate depiction of the devilish imps,of
finest bisque and sculpting.