Three Rare German Wooden Dolls with Sculpted Hats

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5" (13 cm.) Each is all-wooden with one-piece head and torso,painted complexion and facial features,dowel-jointing at shoulders,elbows,hips and knees. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany,mid-19th century. Value Points: very rare dolls are in exemplary condition,including man with tall top hat,painted blue stockings; Chinese man with painted red hat,queue at back of head,downcast moustache,painted yellow stockings and red shoes; and black complexioned man with colorful polka dots on shoulder plate,red shoes.