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Description
17" (43 cm.) All cloth doll with pressed and oil painted facial features and hair, soft curls swirled onto forehead, sculpted ears, painted brown eyes with black and brown upper eyeliner, painted nostrils, closed mouth with pouting lips, stitch- jointed shoulders, disc-jointed legs, separately stitched thumbs. Condition: generally excellent except extensive paint flaking on hair at back of head. Comments: Kathe Kruse, circa 1920. Value Points: beautiful originally painted features with endearing wistful expression, wearing original grey woolen Tyrolean costume.