#250

Exhibition-Size French Portrait Model of Princess Elizabeth by SFBJ w/Original Costume
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$4,500
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33" (84 cm.) Bisque socket head,brown glass side-glancing sleep eyes,dark painted eyeliner,ochre eye shadow,lightly-feathered brows,accented nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with center accent line,blonde human hair wig,French composition and wooden fully- jointed body. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Unis France 71 149 (head) Jumeau Paris Princesse (impressed script mark on back torso). Comments: the model was created in 1938 to honor the young British Princess Elizabeth on her official state visit to Paris. Only a very few of this exhibition size models were made. Value Points: very rare portrait doll wearing the original costume,wig,coronet,and having very rare impressed "Princesse" body mark.