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Description
9" (23 cm.) Bisque shoulder head of adult woman
with elongated throat and heart-shaped face,having
blue glass inset eyes,painted lashes,lightly
feathered brows,accented nostrils,closed mouth
with center accent line,and sculpted ears. She has
her original muslin stitch-jointed torso with
bisque forearms,and a sculpted and painted bodice
with white chemisette ruffle and gold cross on a
black chain. Her sculpted brown hair is arranged
with horizontal finger curls framing her
face,forming two small curls at center
forehead,and captured in a single long horizontal
roll at the neck,then decorated with a black
ribbon at her crown. Condition: generally
excellent. Comments: Simon and Halbig,circa
1870,wearing her original silk gown,whose skirt
covers hundreds of folded paper "fortune telling"
leaves hand-inked in German language,and posed on
original wooden stand. Value Points: rare and
beautiful model with additional fortune-telling
feature.