#239

American Cloth Doll by Martha Chase with Store Lab
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$650
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Description
16" (40 cm). All-cloth doll with pressed and oil- painted facial features, shaded blue eyes, white eyedots, red upper eyeliner, thickly fringed upper lashes, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth, impasto-painted blonde hair that exactly matches the single-stroke brows, cotton sateen body slip, oil-painted stitch-jointed arms and legs, defined fingers and toes, antique costume. Condition: excellent, one small paint flake on hair. Marks: Chase Stockinet Doll (and logo illustration, on torso) The White House, San Francisco (tag on doll and romper suit). Comments: Martha Chase, circa 1900. Value Points: in pristine original condition, the doll has original store label of The White House and wears original romper suit with identical store label