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Description
27" (69 cm.) boy,24" girl. Highlighted by a bisque socket head boy with highly-characterized
facial expression and whitened complexion,brown glass paperweight inset eyes,very dark
eyeliner and painted lashes,brush-stroked and multi-feathered brows,rose blushed eye
shadow,shaded nostrils,closed mouth sculpted in wide beaming smile with shaded and
outlined lips and row of sculpted teeth,separately applied pierced ears,brunette mohair wig
over cork pate,French composition and wooden fully-jointed original body. With a bisque
socket head girl with blue glass paperweight inset eyes,dark eyeliner,painted dark lashes and
feathered arched brows,accented nostrils,closed mouth with outlined lips,pierced
ears,brunette human hair over cork pate,French composition and wooden fully-jointed
original body. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 203 Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 11 (boy)
Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 10 (girl) Bebe Jumeau Diplome d'Honneur (body of each).
Comments: Emile Jumeau,late 19th century,it is likely the pair were costumed to appear at an
Exposition,possibly Jumeau's special exhibit he prepared for the 1899 Paris International
Exposition and for which he published a series of color-illustrated postcards that showed the
200 character series. This particular pair of dolls were featured on the cover of the UFDC Doll
News in February 1965,then in the private collection of Mrs. Gordon Bennett of
Oakland,California,before joining the collection of Vera Bryant. Value Points: the exceptional
couple,he being from the very rare Jumeau 200 character series,are wearing their original
ivory silk satin theatrical costumes with matching aqua kid gloves and satin shoes with aqua
pom-poms,created in the workshops of Ernestine Jumeau,and he having the rare red silk
banner ?Bebe Jumeau"