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Description
14" (36 cm.) Each has bisque socket head,tiny enamel glass eyes,heavy eyelids,tinted
brows,sienna shading around the eyes,tiny upturned nose with accent dots,closed mouth with
wide center accent line,red mohair wig,French composition body (boy with five-piece paper-
mache body,girl with fully-jointed composition body). Condition: generally excellent. Marks:
SFBJ 239 Paris (incised block letters) Poulbot (incised artist signature). Comments: designed
by the French artist Poulbot,circa 1915,marketed in Paris department store catalogs for one
or two years only as "Les Gosses de Poulbot" and named Rintintin and Nenette in honor of the
pet names used by the artist and his wife for each other. Poulbot,the famed French illustrator
of the early 20th century,was forefront in raising funds to assist orphaned children of WWI and
the dolls were nearly identical to illustrations he created for fund-raising posters of the era.
Value Points: very rare French character dolls whose gaunt yet hopeful faces perfectly
personified the Parisian war orphans,wearing their original store costumes