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Description
18" (46 cm.) Paper mache shoulder head with very elongated throat, black sculpted hair with wide pouf curls and narrowly braided beehive on top of head, turquoise eyes with heavy eyelids, painted facial features, slender kid body, wooden lower arms and legs, painted flat green shoes. Condition: very good, original finish with some rubs. Comments: Germany, circa 1840. Value Points: rare coiffure, and (frail) original costume.