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Description
11" (28 cm.) doll. 15" including bonnet. Bisque socket head with plump facial shape, blue glass inset googly eyes, painted short curly lashes, feathered brows, button shaped nose, closed mouth with dainty impish smile, brunette mohair wig, unusual cut of crown designed to accommodate a small night-light bulb designed to be covered by the over-sized woven bonnet, five-piece paper mache toddler body, antique costume, posed on original wooden platform with hidden electric cord running through her body and leg. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Heubach Koppelsdorf 318.7/0 Germany A.H. Schalkau DRGM (head) DRGM 333 (base). Comments: Heubach Koppelsdorf for Albin Hess, the unique novelty character lamp was registered in 1922 and the character head was registered by Hess in 1923; the original over-sized bonnet was designed specifically to accommodate the light bulb. An article about the doll appears in German Doll Studies by Cieslik, page 270. Value Points: extremely rare googly model, made especially choice with its original unique bonnet and with original stamped base.