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Description
15" (38 cm). Bisque swivel head with brown
sculpted hair drawn into elaborately clustered
braids, has blue glass inset eyes, painted
lashes, dark eyeliner, delicately feathered
brows, accented nostrils and eye corners,
closed mouth with accented pale lips, fully
modeled pierced ears, bisque shoulderplate,
shapely kid-over-wooden upper torso,
skirt-shaped carton lower torso extending to
the ground having clockwork and bellows
mechanism visible within, and three wheeled
feet, bisque forearms, antique costume.
Condition: bisque head and shoulderplate
excellent, mechanism functions well, left arm
is not original and does not match. Marks:
W.H. Cremer, Junr. European Game & Toy
Warehouse, 210 Regent Street (paper label
on base). Comments: head by Simon and
Halbig, with classic 1867 patented body style
of Jules Steiner known as "waltzing lady" but
actually having the movements and sounds of
a bebe; when wound the doll moves forward
and around, raises and lowers it arms, and
calls "mama". the doll was sold in the famous
London toy store of William Henry Cremer
prior to 1872. Value Points: rare variation of
the patented model that combines the
elements of both poupee and bebe, original
boutique label.