Very Rare German Bisque "Patsy" Model

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15"(38 cm.) Bisque head with flat-cut neck socket,sculpted bobbed hair and bangs,brown glass sleep eyes,painted short fringed lashes,rounded nose,tiny bow-shaped mouth,porcelain teeth,composition body jointed at shoulders and hips,nicely re-costumed in Patsy style dress. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 127/Germany (head) Effanbee Patsy Joan (body). Comments: the bisque head,an exact model of Effanbee's composition Patsy,was likely the precursor of the popular 1930s doll; a series of two or three dolls in the Patsy/Skippy genre were created in Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s,but appear not be have been put into general production as they are rarely found,and usually,as this example,with assembled bodies.