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Description
11" (28 cm). All-wooden doll with one-piece carved wooden head and torso, painted black hair with carved and painted yellow tuck comb, painted facial features, wooden dowel-jointed limbs. The doll is mounted upon original wooden platform and wears brown velvet costume whose skirt encloses an underskirt formed of folded pieces of paper. Each paper has a hand-written "fortune" in French. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: circa 1850, for the French market, the doll is known in France as "bebe a bonne aventure",and its historical tradition in France for entertainment at fetes is long-lived. Value Points: fine early example with well-preserved fortunes in skirt.