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Description
15" (38 cm.) Of fine cotton,the doll has center-stitched
face with slight dimensional detail of chin,painted brown
short curly hair and facial features,brown eyes,outlined
nose,downcast lips,on slender cotton body with painted
brown stockings and tan shoes. Condition: generally
excellent. Marks: Cocheco Manufacturing Company
1826...Lawrence & Co Patented Aug. 15th 1893 Number
503316. (attached cloth label). Comments:
American,Lawrence & Co of Cocheco fabric mills of
Dover,N.H. The important American fabric mill whose
printed cotton fabrics were shipped world wide during the
last quarter of the 19th century also created a novelty
line of bolt-printed dolls and costume pieces,designed to
be cut,sewn and assembled in the home; this is one rare
example. Value Points: rarely found doll in wonderful
state of preservation with original separately-sewn rare
costume.