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6" (15 cm.) Each is all-bisque with sculpted hair and swivel head, painted facial features, loop-jointed limbs, painted brown ankle boots. Including Max with bobbed black hair, blue left side-glancing eyes, beaming thin-line smile; and Moritz with exuberantly-modeled reddish topknot and side wing curls, blue right-glancing googly eyes, very full smiling lips. Condition: generally excellent, few rubs on Max's hair, tiny flake bottom front neck socket of Moritz. Comments: Kestner circa 1915, the models were based on the characters Max and Moritz from the 19th century children's books of Wilhelm Busch, and re-popularized in the early 20th century American comic strip, "The Katzenjammer Kids". Value Points: apt portrayal of the story book characters from original illustrations including such details as variation of smiles, and pointing fingers on Moritz.