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Description
11" (28 cm.) All-wooden doll with painted black hair with shaded curls around the face, paint over gesso complexion and facial features, dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees. The doll is wearing her original homespun and woolen costume with flannel bonnet, undergarments, and is carrying a woven basket upon which are arranged a myriad of tiny sewing notions and related goods such as tiny toys. The doll and basket are posed upon a wooden base. Condition: generally excellent, tip of tuck comb broken off. Comments: Grodnertal, circa 1850, the doll was created for the English market.