French All-Leather Doll with Original Paper Label and Box

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10" (25 cm.) Firmly-stuffed all-brown leather doll has stitched-on leather cover over muslin form, shaped facial features including nose, chin and tiny mouth, defined neck, cut-out eye sockets with applied pupils, painted brows, black wiry hair, hand-stitched leather body. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: for the French market, late-19th century, the doll was designed to represent native women of the French Martinique Islands. An article about the dolls appeared in the French journal L'illustration at that time. Value Points: the doll is wearing original costume with stitched-on paper label ink script labeled "poupee de la Martinique..." and is preserved in original bentwood lidded box.