American Cloth Topsy-Turvy by Witherspoon Rag of New Orleans

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16" (41 cm.) The classic topsy-turvy doll depicts a brown-complexioned doll on one side, and a white-complexioned doll on the other, each with artistically oil-painted features, and applied hair, the white-complexioned girl with unusual brown-painted eyes and brows and black mohair curls, with common torso. The small New Orleans cottage industry, under the direction of Maud Witherspoon, sold its dolls in important stores throughout the United States for a short period of time at the beginning of the 1900s. Value Points: dolls by this firm are very rare; the topsy-turvy models are virtually unknown.