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18" (46 cm.) All muslin doll with flat-dimensional face, simplistically-painted facial features clustered in the very center of the oval-shaped face, shaped torso and stitch-jointed limbs. Condition: very good, original painting, wig may not be original. Comments: American, circa 1880. Value Points: the doll wears her original simple costume, brown cotton dress, straw bonnet, cutwork apron, and heavy knitted red striped stockings, being sold from the estate collection of Madeline Merrill who, in the The Art of Dolls 1700-1940 described the doll as "prim looking homemade cloth doll with naively draw ink features...a simply made but charming doll."