Trio of Swiss Metal-Bodied Dolls

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8" (20 cm.) Each has composition head with uniquely sculpted hair and facial features, metal ball-bearing body allowing for infinite articulation, composition hands and feet with painted shoes, including woman with sculpted black curly hair, dapper man with center-parted hair and sideburns, and solemn faced man with brown painted hair. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Bucherer (incised mark on body). Comments: Bucherer from their Saba line of dolls, 1920s. Value Points: the trio includes rare black-haired man who is wearing his original costume.