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Description
22" (56 cm.) All-cloth doll with flat-dimensional
face,oil-painted facial features and hair,painted
shaded brown hair with thick curls at the forehead
and shaded coloring of hair at the back,painted
large brown eyes,brown eyeliner,single-stroke
brows,outlined nose,closed mouth with extended
center line,blushed cheeks,muslin stitch-jointed
body with oil-painted hands,nicely costumed.
Condition: generally excellent,some light flaking
of paint at back of head. Marks: The Columbia Doll
Manufactured by Mariette Adams Ruttan Oswego,N.Y.
Comments: circa 1892,designed and made by the
Adams sisters,Emma and Marietta,the doll won the
Gold Medal at the 1892 Columbian Exposition in
Chicago. Value Points: historically important
American doll with beautiful original oil painted
features and hair,maker's signature.