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Description
22" (56 cm.) All-cloth doll with flat-dimensional face having oil-painted complexion,hair and
facial features,shaded brown hair with scalloped curls framing the face,shaded blue eyes with
white eyedots,arched brows,outlined nose,closed mouth with outlined lips,stitch-jointing of arms
and legs. Condition: original finish with darkening of varnish,muslin torso is water-spotted.
Comments: Emma Adams who presented her cloth doll at the Chicago Columbian World
Exposition of 1893,where it was the first American doll to ever be awarded a Gold Medal,known
thereafter as the Columbian Doll. Value Points: rare doll was superbly-painted features in the
manner of American portrait painters of the late-19th century,original costume.