#261

American Wooden Doll, Unusual Variation, by Alice Wainwright Copithorne
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$300 / $400
Description
13" (33 cm.) All-wooden doll with one-piece carved wooden head and torso, jointed arms and legs, designed as Japanese child with whitened complexion and black hair with carved ringlet curls, original costume. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Alice H. Copithorne Polly Shorrock, Topsfield Mass, 1973. Value Points: unusual variation with distinctive complexion and hair style.