$3,600
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Description
28" (71 cm.) All cloth doll with flat-dimensional
face,oil painted complexion,hair and facial
features,softly-swirled brown curls with shaded
detail,green/brown eyes with painted spiral
threading,eye outlines and shadow,outlined
nose,painted lips with upturned corners and white
accent dot,blushed cheeks,stitch-jointed
limbs,antique white baby dress and
bonnet,undergarments,leather boots. Condition:
very good,original finish,some patch at side of
head under bonnet. Marks: Columbian Doll Emma E.
Adams Oswego Center N.Y. Comments: the grand
prize winning model at the Chicago Columbian
Exposition World's Fair of 1893,made in small
town New York by Emma Adams. Value Points: grand
large size of the American doll with superb
artistic painting of face and complexion.