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-jointed shoulders,elbows,hips and knees. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany,mid-19th century. Value Points: extraordinary original condition of the rare early dolls,each with painted hat,including Scottish boy with painted blue tam decorated with tassel,painted yellow shoes; Asian man with fitted red turban having blue tassel at the back,long downward-curled moustache,painted brown stockings and black shoes; and man with painted red turban with wide white outer wrap,painted black moustache,painted yellow stockings and red shoes.