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Description
7" (18 cm.) Each has bisque shoulder head with angular features of adult lady,sculpted hair and
bonnet,painted facial features,muslin body,bisque lower arms,painted boots,and wearing original
costumes. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany,circa 1875. Value Points: the rare
models are beautifully-preserved,each with very fancy and superbly-executed decorated bonnet;
the two with lustre bonnets show decorative variations of the same model. The dolls are featured
in Evelyn Ackerman's Dolls in Miniature,page 90 and 91 with special note by the author of the
yellow bonnet lady whose bonnet is decorated by a hidden lustre plume at the crown and whose
back bonnet ruffle is so realistically-modeled "that it seems possible to feel the fabric".