#35

Two Rare German Bisque Dollhouse Gentlemen with Sculpted Beards
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Description
7" (18 cm.) Each has bisque shoulder head with sculpted hair and beard,painted features,muslin body,bisque lower limbs with painted shoes,antique costume including aged man with very long grey beard,full bushy moustache and neatly-arranged grey hair accented by piercing blue painted eyes; and man with light brown hair in off-center side part,having long sideburns,long curly moustache,and neat Vandyke beard. Condition: generally excellent,one foot missing. Comments: Germany,circa 1890. Value Points: very rare models,both dolls are featured in Ackerman's Dolls in Miniature,pages 245 and 246,described as "distinguished".