German Porcelain Taufling Baby with Bald Pate and Jointed Ankles

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12" (30 cm.) Solid domed porcelain head with flat-cut neck socket which fits on dowel of paper mache shoulderplate, bald pate with little tufts of blonde curls above each ear and at nape, painted blue eyes, red and black upper eyeliner, single stroke brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth, cloth midriff enclosing "mama" bellows, cloth upper arms and legs, paper mache lower torso, wooden lower arms and legs, jointed porcelain hands and feet, with original woven bonnet. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1865. Value Points: unusual early variation of taufling baby with bald pate, jointed porcelain arms and legs, mama bellows.