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Description
12"(30 cm.) Each has a wax portrait head with sculpted hair and painted facial features,three
have armature-wrapped bodies with crepe paper costumes,and the fourth has a cloth body with
cloth costume. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Dietrich (incised front breastplate) and The
Art Shop label (on pink dressed doll). Comments: circa 1920s,the dolls were created exclusively
for The Art Shop of the Ambassador Hotel,home of the Coconut Grove night club where many of
the stars gathered during this time. The cloth bodied doll is autographed,probably Claudette
Colbert (difficult to decipher,also included is a photograph of Billie with star in later years
holding this doll). Value Points: beautiful dolls with wonderfully-preserved costumes.