#247

Pair,American Composition Little Cherubs by Harriet Flanders for Averill
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$450
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12" (30 cm.) Each has composition socket head,painted facial features,blue side-glancing eyes,painted curly upper lashes,"O" shaped closed mouth,jointed arms and legs. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Harriet Flanders. c. 1937 (doll) A Genuine Georgene Doll (original paper label with stamp "Ski-boy",on boy). Comments: designed by Harriet Flanders for Averill,each doll was originally sold in box with illustrations and poem by Flanders,circa 1937. Value Points: in original costumes,in unplayed with condition,the boy as skier,the girl as skater and having yellow yarn hair and felt bonnet with applique daisy.