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Description
18" (46 cm.) Having earthenware head the distinctively sculpted facial features,sculpted brown
hair in neat style,deeply-set eye sockets with incised age lines,painted brown brows,closed
mouth with very full moustache,muslin body with earthenware hands and sculpted black
shoes,wearing original blue woolen military costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments:
circa 1900,the doll portrays a particular (but unidentified) British military figure from the period
of the Boer War,1899-1902. Value Points: superb sculpting of highly-characterized portrait
features in well-preserved condition.