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Description
11" (28 cm.) (excluding hat). A bisque head with blue glass spiral-threaded eyes,painted
lashes,feathered brows,closed mouth with outlined lips,pierced ears,brunette mohair wig over
cork pate,is mounted upon a hollow firm-sided plump torso and legs,paper mache arms with
bisque hands; the hollow torso,designed to be used as a candy container,is accessed by
opening the hinged "poster door" at his front torso. Condition: generally excellent. Marks:
Depose (on bottom of each foot) Lombard 11 Boulevard des Italiens Paris (gold script on
inside panel). Comments: a luxury candy or bon-bon box,circa 1880,as indicated by the
Depose mark on foot,and the very fine quality of bisque head and sculpted hands,presented
by the prestige 19th-century Parisian bon-bon shop of Lombard. Value Points: very rare bon-
bon doll with original costume,poster,and top hat,exquisite quality of bisque and hands.