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Description
12" (30 cm.) Bisque socket head with flattened
solid dome depicting an adult man with slender
face,prominent chin and nose,sculpted dark hair
that matches his sculpted brows and curly-tip
moustache,closed mouth,painted grey eyes in deeply
set eye sockets,red and black upper
eyeliner,Sonneberg five-piece body,painted boots.
Condition: generally excellent. Comments: portrait
doll of Rear-Admiral Richard Pearson Hobson,a
romanticized hero of the Spanish-American War,from
their series of American historical figures by
Dressel,circa 1898.Value Points: among the rarest
of the Dressel historical dolls,this example wears
his all-original blue woolen military uniform and
accessories.