Ensemble of Eight Wax Crib Figures

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9" (23 cm.) Each of eight people has solid wax head with uniquely sculpted facial features depicting various villagers,travelers and nobility,each with sculpted hair (except one lady with stiffened ringlet curls),tiny inset enamel glass eyes,and distinctive expressions,wooden block torso,wrapped wire armature upper arms and legs,carved wooden lower arms and legs,painted shoes,and posed on original wooden stand. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: early 19th century,Continental. Value Points: each figure is authentically and elaborately costumed to represent its social position,in rich silks,velvets and having lavish metallic trims.