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Description
25" (64 cm.) All-cloth doll with pressed and oil-painted
facial features to depict President George
Washington,having blue painted eyes with heavy
eyelids,single-stroke brows,aquiline nose,closed mouth
with strong lips and jaw,impasto thickly-painted white
hair that forms into a pony tail at the nape,cotton sateen
body cover,stitch-jointed arms and legs,oil-painted hands
and feet with defined fingers and toes,wearing a blue
woolen and ivory silk suit with lace jabot and cuffs,black
stockings and shoes. Condition: generally excellent.
Marks: The Chase Stockinet Doll Made of Stockinet and
Cloth... (original paper label on back). Comments: Martha
Chase,late 19th century. Value Points: very rare doll in
perfectly preserved original condition with most artistic
painting,the facial model unique for this doll,in its
original labeled box and with original body paper label