#282

Unusual Wooden 'Bedpost' Doll
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$50
sold
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Description
21" (53 cm). Wooden shoulderhead with oval-shaped head (known as "bedpost"), sculpted nose, simplistically painted facial features, attached in swivel fashion to brown muslin torso and upper limbs, wooden lower limbs, chip-carved fingers and toes, remnants of original wig. Condition: generally excellent, chip on nose tip. Comments: maker unknown of the commercially produced doll, similiar dolls were produced in East Germany, circa 1950. Value Points: rare wooden doll in the folk art style.