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Description
26" (66 cm.) Hand-sculpted papier-mache of
plump-faced child with rich dark brown
complexion,deeply-set eye sockets with red lower
edging,brown glass inset eyes,black painting brows
and upper eyeliner,broad nose with upturned
tip,very full lips of closed mouth,sculpted
ears,black mohair wig over solid dome
pate,stiffened brown muslin body with
brown-painted composition lower arms and
legs,wearing antique cotton pinafore
dress,blouse,homespun cape with green soutache
trim,undergarments. Condition: generally
excellent. Comments: American,circa 1920,possibly
Leo Moss of Macon,Georgia,a handyman by
trade,whose folk dolls were created from the
scraps of paper scraped from walls and made into a
thick mache,then colored with boot dye,soot,or
stove blacking as their base color. Value Points:
wonderful and extremely rare American folk
doll,with well-detailed characterization,original
finish,in rare larger size; few examples of the
Leo Moss dolls are known to exist.