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Description
13" (33 cm.) Bisque socket head of man with lean,elongated head,painted blue eyes,painted
lower lashes and upper eyeliner,feathered brows,aquiline nose,closed mouth with painted
moustache,with cut pate for wig but also having painted hair in front of ears and at
nape,composition and wooden fully-jointed body,silk and velvet court-style costume. Condition:
generally excellent. Marks: D.L. Comments: Damerval & Laffranchy,who in 1910 presented a
series of art-character heads; the firm was mentioned in the 1910 article "The Renaissance of
the French Doll". Value Points: uniquely-modeled face with well-defined features.