#164

Wooden Dolls 'The Pinn Family' in Original Box
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$600
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Description
Seven dolls, 5"-12" (13 - 30 cm). Each is all wooden with bedpost-heads, simplistically painted facial features, yarn hair in various colors, block torso, clothespin arms and legs. CONDITION: Generally excellent. MARKS: Patent Pending c.1935 E.T.M. St. Paul Minn. COMMENTS: The successors to the Schoenhut firm produced this imaginative set of dolls from bedposts and clothespins, circa 1935. VALUE POINTS: In unplayed with condition in original labelled box, the dolls wear their original cotton costumes; Harry Pinn, Clo Pinn, and Baby Pinn have their original labels.