Five German All Wooden Dolls in Original Knit Folklore Costumes

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11" (28 cm.) Each has solid domed wooden head and torso,painted facial features,black bead eyes,yarn hair,pin-jointed wooden arms and legs with cloth hands. Condition: generally excellent. Comments:Germany (Austria?),circa 1920,the dolls were acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1928. Value Points: unusual wooden dolls with applied glass bead eyes,each wearing its original colorful knit woolen costume.