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Description
11" (28 cm.) Posed standing atop an ebony wooden pedestal is a porcelain shoulderhead doll with black sculpted hair, painted facial features, muslin upper torso, porcelain arms and lower legs. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: for the French market, the fortune telling doll, known as poupee a bonne aventure has a skirt formed of folded paper sheets, each with a different ink-lettered "fortune", circa 1885. Value Points: charming petite example of the party doll with intact fortunes and original costume including tall hat to match her black velvet top.