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Description
12" (30 cm.) Bisque socket head with three varying faces,the head enclosed in a paper-mache
hood that hides the two faces not in view,including smile face with brown glass eyes and closed
mouth,sleeping face with modeled closed eyelids,and crying face with squinting brown glass
eyes and closed mouth as though crying; on original muslin body with composition lower
limbs,the faces are revealed by turning the knob hidden at the top of the head. Condition:
generally excellent. Comments: Carl Bergner,circa 1892. Value Points: very expressive
features,fine bisque,original body,and wearing original multi-layered costume.