#169

Two German Paper Mache Dolls
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$2,700
sold
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Description
each 14" (35 cm). Each has paper mache shoulderhead with sculpted and painted hair, painted facial features, slender kid body with paper banding at junction of kid and wooden limbs, slender wooden lower arms and legs, painted shoes, very frail original costume of woman is included. CONDITION: Very good, few surface lines on man's face, line on woman's shoulderplate. COMMENTS: Germany, circa 1860. VALUE POINTS: Brown-eyed man wears original costume, woman has rare hair style with long ringlet curls, unusual paper banding.