#589

German Paper Mache Girl in Original Cabinet Presentation
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$625
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27" (69 cm.) Presented in a wooden framed cabinet with unusual-3-sided glass front, gold leaf finish, and early paper lining, is a paper mache doll with blonde sculpted hair in elaborate fashion, enamel eyes, painted features, muslin body, wooden lower limbs with painted blue ankle boots. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1870, the doll wears her original blue woolen dress trimmed with blue velvet bows, undergarments, earrings, necklace and hair ornaments.