Collection, Five Grodnertal Wooden Dolls

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11" (28 cm.) -18". Each is wooden with well-defined carving of hair and facial features, with painted complexion, hair, and facial features, one-piece head and torso, peg-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, the two larger with painted shoes. Condition: dressed doll is missing arm, otherwise excellent. Comments: Grodnertal, late 1800s. Value Points: dolls retain original finish, with variations of facial painting, the dressed doll has unusual carved ringlet curls.