$1,500
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Description
18" (46 cm.) All-fabric doll with stitch-shaped
face,center-seam,embroidered
eyes,pupils,lashes,brows and lips,defined pointy
chin and nose,brown fleecy hair with
characteristic widow's peak,five-piece body with
jointing at shoulders and hips. Condition:
generally excellent. Marks: Polish Victim's Relief
Fund (one side of medal) Health and Happiness to
You,Kind Doll Lover,Who by taking into your heart
and home one of my little doll waifs of Poland
have fed a starving mother or child in that
'saddest land',Helena Paderewski,copyright 1915
(other side of medal). Comments: French,circa
1915,Madame Helena Paderewski,wife of the
celebrated pianist,used her celebrity-hood to
oversee the production of artistic cloth dolls
that were sold to society ladies to benefit widows
and orphans of WWI; an intriguing story about the
dolls appears in The Encyclopedia of French Dolls
by Theimer. Value Points: the rare doll is
perfectly-preserved,has original costume and
medallion.