#202

American Cloth Lithographed Topsy-Turvy Doll by Bruckner
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$700
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Description
11" (28 cm.) All-cloth doll with alternate doll head posed on either side of a muslin torso,and designed so that the full-length costume which accompanies each head will hide the alternate head. When the doll is flipped over, the second head and second costume appear. Each head has sewn-on lithographed face with pressed-mask features, including black child with brown eyes, painted black hair under mohair wig, painted red hair ribbons, smiling expression with double row of teeth, wearing red bandanna and cotton costume with apron; and white child with blue eyes, curly blonde hair, and wearing original red plaid muslin dress and apron. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Albert Bruckner, the dolls appeared in the Babyland Rag Series of Horsman, circa 1915. Value Points: fine original condition of the topsy-turvy dolls.