#197

American Composition Skippy in White Horse Inn Costume
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$550
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14" (35 cm). Composition socket head, tan painted hair with forelock curl, blue side-glancing eyes, five lashes, v-shaped brows, closed mouth with rosebud lips, five piece composition body. CONDITION: Generally excellent. MARKS: Effanbee Skippy c. P.I. Crosby. COMMENTS: Effanbee, circa 1936. VALUE POINTS: Pristine condition, wearing original wool shorts and suspenders, blue felt jacket with green braid, green leggings, shoes, green felt Tyrolean hat with feather, celluloid pin labelled "White Horse Inn", the costume inspired by the 1936 Broadway play of the same name.