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17" (43 cm.) Each is brown muslin with flat-dimension face, embroidered facial features with large yellow irises and "O" shaped stitched pupils, stitched smiling lips, black yarn hair in tight curls and braids, brown muslin one-piece body, hand-made cotton costumes. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: handmade by Bessie Hissum, 1946 (hand written note on each doll). Comments: Mid-20th century, the dolls were situated in a West Virginia collection; the Hissum family had been located in West Virginia for more than a century, although information specifically about a Bessie Hissum is unknown at this time. Value Points: appealing folk dolls with amusing googly-eyed expressions.