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Description
3" (8 cm.) -5". Each has bisque or china shoulder head with sculpted short brown,black or blonde
hair in boyish fashion,painted facial features,muslin body,bisque lower limbs. Condition:
generally excellent. Comments: Germany,circa 1860s. Value Points: two with rare brown sculpted
hair,each with original elaborately-detailed costumes,and presented in early glass-fronted
presentation box. The dolls are shown and described "each is delicately fashioned to indicate his
youthful attributes and handsome countenance" in Dolls in Miniature by Evelyn Ackerman,page
97.