#321

Pair, American Black Cloth Folk Dolls in Original Costumes
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$500
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Description

12" (31 cm.) Each is of black stockinette with flat-dimensional faces except sewn-on flat nose patch, embroidered eyes and pupils, brows, and red lips, black yarn fleecy hair on man, woman with bald head under stitched on cap, all black stockinette bodies. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: folk art American dolls, circa 1900. Value Points: well preserved little pair with imaginative construction, original costumes.