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Description
25" (64 cm.) Bisque socket head, large blue glass paperweight inset eyes, thick dark eyeliner, painted lashes, brushstroked brows with feathered details, accented nostrils and eye corners, open mouth, row of porcelain teeth, pierced ears, brunette human hair wig over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully-jointed body with phonograph mechanism inside torso, tin plate on torso front for access to change discs. Condition: generally excellent, mechanism functions, some body touch up. Marks: Tet Jumeau (faint red stamp, head) 11 (incised, head) Bebe Jumeau Bte SGDG Depose (body). Comments: Bebe Phonographe of Lioret in conjunction with Emile Jumeau, circa 1890. Value Points: rare model with original key-wind and pull lever at back torso, functioning, beautiful bisque, original Jumeau chemise.