$1,300
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Description
15" (38 cm.) All-latex-composition body with
socket head,sculpted facial features depicting a
gentle-featured smiling child with double row of
teeth and painted sea-green eyes with real
lashes,painted brows,long human hair
curls,five-piece latex-composition body.
Condition: generally excellent. Marks: DC
(initials). Comments: Dewees Cochran,circa
1960,the portrait model of little April Anne was
created by the American artist on special
commission,using her Angela Appleseed model of her
Grow-Up Doll Series. Value Points: beautiful doll
in well-preserved condition,wearing original
artist-made costume,along with an added gold heart
locket (with attached 1943 Valentine card noting
that "tiny gold locket was given April on this
Valentine day". Value Points: the portrait doll is
accompanied by a correspondence and related
ephemera concerning the creation of the
dolls,between Dewees Cochran and a Mrs. Smith who
ordered the doll made of April Anne.