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Description
7" (18 cm.) Each has bisque shoulder head with sculpted hair and beard,painted facial
features,muslin body,bisque lower limbs with painted shoes,with cloth suit. Condition: generally
excellent. Comments: Germany,circa 1890. Value Points: including gentleman with rare dark
brown slicked-down hair and brown thick drooping moustache and goatee; and gentleman with
comb-marked light brown hair,curly-tip moustache and very full beard. Both dolls are featured
in Evelyn Ackerman's Dolls in Miniature,pages 244 and 245,described as "finely characterized".