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Description
17" (43 cm). Paper mache socket head with flat-
cut neck spring attachment, brown sculpted hair
with forelock curls, painted facial features,
brown eyes, white eyedots, black and brown upper
eyeliner, closed mouth with pouty expression,
unique body of muslin stretched over composition
armature, spring-jointing at shoulders and side-
hips, antique costume. Condition: generally
excellent. Comments: Gunther Heine, whose firm
operated in Bud Kosen, nearby to the Kathe Kruse
firm, circa 1920. The firm appears to have
operated for two or three years only. Value
Points: rare model with wonderfully sculpted very
expressive features, deeply modeled hair,
original painted with blushed ear lobs, chubby
cheeks and chin.