American Brown-Eyed Cloth Doll by Martha Chase

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19" (48 cm.) All-cloth doll with firmly-pressed and oil-painted facial features and blonde short hair with impasto-detailing and soft curls around the forehead, painted brown eyes with shaded color, red and black upper eyeliner, painted lashes, closed mouth, accented nostrils and eye corners, sateen torso cover, oil-painted limbs with stitch-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Martha Chase, circa 1910. Value Points: rarer brown eyes on the American doll.