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Description
6" (15 cm.) Bisque shoulder head of adult lady with slender face,sculpted darkest brown hair
drawn into ringlet curls at the back,sculpted yellow bonnet decorated with black band and a large
purple lustre feather,painted facial features,muslin body,bisque lower limbs,black shoes.
Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany,mid-1860s. Value Points: rare model with
brown hair and fancy bonnet wears her original superb costume. The exquisite doll is shown in
Evelyn Ackerman's Dolls in Miniature,page 172,described as "replete with costuming details,from
the forward tilting bonnet to the extended crinoline skirt".