$2,500
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Description
20" (51 cm.) All-cloth doll with pressed and
oil-painted facial features and
hair,deeply-defined eye sockets with incised
eyeliner,brown painted eyes,brown painted hair
with stippling onto forehead and matching-brown
brows,accented nostrils,stitched-ears,closed mouth
with very full lips,stockinette stitch-jointed
body,oil-painted lower arms and legs,antique
costume appears original. Condition: generally
excellent. Comments: known as the "Philadelphia
Baby",the distinctive doll was commissioned for
the J.B. Sheppard Department Store of Philadelphia
toward the end of the 19th century; the quality of
artistry and workmanship is superb and
distinctive,yet the actual maker remains unknown.
Value Points: rarely found American doll with
superb sculpting details and fine original painted
finish.