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Description
17" (43 cm.) All-cloth doll with flat-dimensional face, oil-painted complexion, hair and facial features, short brown center-parted hair scalloped around her forehead and cropped close to head, shaded blue eyes, black and brown upper eyeliner, feathered brows, outlined nose, closed mouth, stitch-jointed body, oil-painted lower arms and legs, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent, some typical light craquelure and rubs. Comments: created by Bessie and Maggie Pfohl in their Moravian community of Salem, North Carolina, early 1900s. Value Points: most endearing American cloth doll with well-rendered artistic portraiture similar to family portrait paintings presented by itinerant artists such as Matthew Prior.