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Description
15" (38 cm.) Solid domed bisque shoulder head,brown glass inset eyes,painted facial
features,closed mouth with downcast pouty expression,blonde mohair wig,original muslin
commercial body,bisque lower arms. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 167-4.
Comments: Kling,circa 1890,the doll is wearing her original maroon sateen and lace dress
with matching bonnet,undergarments,stockings and leather shoes,and was featured in an
article in Cieslik's Puppenmagazin wherein she was identified as wearing an original costume
from the doll fashion house of Johannes Franz of Sonneberg,designed to emulate the French
doll costumes. Value Points: superb original costume of the beautiful doll,from the original
collection of Estrid Faurholt,featured in her 1967 Book of Dolls and Doll Houses with a story
about its original owner. According to the story,doll named Klara was given to a little Danish
girl in 1888 "with permission to take it out of the cupboard every Sunday to look at,not to play
with. The little girl looked forward to this moment all week and she kept the doll until her
death at the age of eighty".