#16

French Cloth Six-Pin Jeu de Quilles
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10"H (25 cm). Each of six sailors serves as bowling pin, each with stockinette stuffed head having stitched nose, painted side-glancing googly eyes, yarn mouth and hair, woolen wrapped cylinder "body". Each sailor wears blue sailor collar and cap labeled "France", and included is matching woolen bowling ball in French colors of red, white and blue. Excellent condition, few moth holes, vibrant original colors well preserved. French, circa 1910.