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Description
31" (79 cm). Bisque socket head with very pale bisque and plump facial modeling, grey glass inset eyes, dark eyeliner encircles the eye sockets, painted lashes, brushstroked and multi- feathered brows, shaded nostrils, accented eye corners, closed mouth with pale accented lips, brunette human hair, early composition and wooden plump body with attached ball-joints and straight wrists, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent, body finish original albeit scrubbed. Marks: 18 103. Comments: Kestner, circa 1885. Value Points: rare early model in fine large size with desirable delicate bisque, original early body.