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Description
16" (41 cm.) Hand-pressed porcelain head
with flat-cut neck socket and solid
dome,painted brown hair waved behind the
ears into soft pageboy curls held by
gold-edged white band,painted blue eyes,red
and black upper eyeliner single stroke
brows,accented nostrils and eye
corners,closed mouth,taufling style body with
paper mache upper and lower torso,muslin
covered midriff with non-working bellows
crier,porcelain lower arms and legs,painted
shoes,antique gown. Condition: generally
excellent,right arm,fingers,and right calf
re-glued. Comments: Germany,circa 1860.
Value Points: rare to find early model with
original body, nicely characterized face.