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Description
46" (117 cm.) Bisque socket head with unusual elongated oval shape, blue glass sleep eyes, human hair lashes, dark eye liner, painted dark curly lashes, modeled detail of brows with brush-stroked painting, accented eye corners, shaded nostrils, open mouth, shaded and outlined lips, four porcelain teeth, pierced ears, long brunette wig, composition and wooden ball-jointed body, wearing lovely antique mauve silk taffeta lady's gown, undergarments, bonnet, shoes. Condition: generally excellent, body finish original with some revarnish. Marks: 1079 S&H dep 19 (head) Wimpern (stamp). Comments: Simon & Halbig, circa 1900. Value Points: extremely rare largest size of Simon and Halbig doll, with unusual facial shape, lovely bisque and painting.