Six Very Rare Miniature Dolls in Original Costumes and Boxes

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3" (8 cm.) Each of the six dolls is shaped of a very fine kid or silk,with egg-shaped head that has minutely-painted facial features including details of stippled curls around the faces of the women,and painted beards or side burns on the men,firmly-shaped upper torso and arms,and with cork lower body designed to accommodate bristles. Condition: very good/excellent,bristles lacking. Comments: early-19th century,the miniature "bristle" or dancing dolls. Value Points: an extraordinary set of six dolls,the three pairs are preserved in their original boxes,and each is wearing a superbly-detailed original costume including stove-pipe hat and cravat on the gentlemen. The dolls were described in Ackerman's Dolls in Miniature book,page 47,with note made of the "individualized portraits".