Onsite
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$7,000
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sold
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- Estimate
- $8,000 / $10,000
Description
29" (74 cm.) Pressed sculpted cloth depicting an older man with defined age wrinkles, high cheek bones, painted black complexion, heavily-lidded painted brown eyes with overglaze finish, real lashes, tinted brows, broad nose, closed mouth, modeled ears, grey/brown wiry hair and goatee, cloth torso, oil-painted stitch-jointed cloth arms and legs with black painted finish, painted finger and toe nails. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: made by Ethel Grey Sanders N.A. 1921 (ink script on foot). Comments: circa 1921, made by Ethel Grey Sanders of Walterboro, South Carolina (1883-1953), a companion gentleman to #352. Value Points: outstanding detail of expressive facial modeling, wearing original costume of plaid shirt, tweed jacket with handkerchief and a bag of smoking tobacco with R.J. Reynolds labels, black trousers, shoes and socks. The doll is likely one-of-a-kind.