$3,800
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Description
14" (36 cm.) Bisque socket head with cut pate at
top of crown,grey sculpted hair at sides and back
of head,incised facial wrinkles,small brown
painted eyes,thin red and black upper
eyeliner,grey painted brows,strong crooked
nose,closed mouth under pronounced bushy grey
mustache,composition and wooden fully-jointed
body,grey woolen suit. Condition: generally
excellent. Comments: Cuno and Otto Dressel,circa
1900,from their American heroes series,portrayed
is Richmond Pearson Hobson,one of the great
heroes of the Spanish-American War. Value Points:
very rare portrait doll with excellent detail of
characterization is also one of the few
specifically male dolls of the era.