Two American Cloth Dolls by Edith Flack Ackley in Original Costumes

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15" (38 cm.) Each is all muslin with embroidered facial features in distinctive style such as horizontal stitching of eyes, dot brows, nostril dots, embroidered parted lips, blonde or brunette yarn hair in curls or braided coronet, stitch-jointed limbs. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Edith Flack Ackley (blonde doll with stitched-on cloth label at back waist). Comments: Edith Flack Ackley, 1940s. Value Points: beautifully preserved doll with distinctive embroidery and shoe style, each wearing original well-detailed costume and undergarments, one with original Ackley label.