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Description
12" (30 cm.) Bisque head with flanged
neck,sculpted brown hair in short bobbed fashion
with forehead bangs,large blue glass sleep
eyes,painted lashes,tinted brows,accented
nostrils,closed mouth with shaded and accented
lips,muslin body,composition limbs with right
thumb modeled as though for sucking,muslin
costume. Condition: generally excellent. Marks:
Copr by Grace C. Rockwell Germany 1397/30.
Comments: Germany,circa 1925,from a series of
American-artist-designed dolls commissioned by
Borgfeldt,the series included works by
Drayton,Putnam Averill,Helen Jensen,Orsini and
Kallus,this model designed by Grace Corry
Rockwell is likely her model marketed as "Betty
Jean" (later copyrighted as "Pretty Peggy").
Value Points: rare model with great
characterization,fine quality bisque and painting.