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Description
17"(43 cm.) Bisque socket head of smiling-face child,brown glass sleep eyes,painted curly
lashes,short feathered brows,accented nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with smiling
expression,dimpled cheeks,brunette mohair bobbed wig,composition and wooden ball-jointed
body. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Germany 1924 c L.A. & S. N.Y. 973/3. Comments:
Germany,commissioned Amberg,1924,the doll portrays the child silent screen star,Baby Peggy
(born Peggy-Jean Montgomery,1918),making more than 150 short comedy films between
1921 and 1924,and in 1924 appearing in the full-length "Darling of New York". Her success
was so phenomenal that licensing of merchandise,including dolls,became a significant adjunct
to her acting. Value Points: rare doll that aptly captures the likeness of the child
actor,autographed on the back of the doll's head,along with a lot of related paper
ephemera,viz. 1924 "Picturegoer"magazine,three additional foreign-language film magazines
from the early 1920s (all the above featuring Baby Peggy on the cover),sheet music "That's My
Baby"with four images of Baby Peggy on the cover,June 1925 paper doll page,and four
postcards of her,all of these autographed by Baby Peggy (some under her adult name Diana
Serra Cary under which name she wrote her autobiography "What Ever Happened to Baby
Peggy".