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Description
18" (46 cm.) All-cloth doll with flat-dimensional face, oil-painted complexion, hair and facial features, short brown side-parted hair in boyish style with shaded details, shaded brown eyes, black and brown upper eyeliner, feathered brows, outlined nose with accented nostrils, outlined ears, closed mouth, stitch-jointed body, oil-painted lower arms and legs, antique costume including wooden pail and woven hat. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: created by Bessie and Maggie Pfohl in their Moravian community of Salem, North Carolina, early 1900s. Value Points: a flawlessly-preserved example of the sought-after American doll, rarely found as boy doll, with uniquely painted hair. Ex-collection Catherine White.