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Description
18"(46 cm.) Simply-carved wooden head with sculpted painted short black hair,sculpted eye
sockets with painted blue eyes,thick black brows,closed mouth in wide smiling expression with
two rows of painted teeth,firmly-stuffed cloth body with composition hands. Condition: generally
excellent. Comments: portrait of the silent film actor,William Farnum (1876-1953),portrayed in
his role as Buck Duane in the 1919 Zane Grey film "Last of the Duane's."Value Points: although
simply carved,the doll is a very apt portrayal of existing photographs of the star,here wearing his
original Western costume including leatherette chaps and carrying a wooden-framed metal toy
rifle.