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23" (58 cm.) Bisque socket head, brown glass sleep and side-glancing googly eyes, long painted curly lashes, incised upper eyeliner, arched feathered brows, accented eye corners and nostrils of rounded nose, closed mouth with defined space between the beaming smiling lips, brunette mohair wig, composition and wooden ball-jointed toddler body with side-hip jointing. Condition: generally excellent, faintest surface line (firing?) from crown rim to mid-forehead. Marks: 165-12. Comments: Hertel and Schwab, their model marketed as "Jubilee Googly", circa 1915. Value Points: exceptional size of the delightful googly with superb bisque and painting, original body, wig, body finish, antique boy's costume.