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1 3/4" (4 cm.) Carved wooden doll with painted complexion and facial features, black painted hair, one-piece head and shapely torso, dowel-jointed arms and legs, early costume, mounted seated side-saddle on a wooden carved donkey with carved detail of harness. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Grodnertal, circa 1840. Value Points: most appealing tiny doll in unique arrangement. A copy of the 2002 catalog is included with the doll. In July 2002, Theriault's auction catalog "My Life as a Doll" related the tale of a tiny, tiny wooden Grodnertal doll posed seated sidesaddle on a tired donkey as she toiled through time and places seeking knowledge and adventure. The catalog ended with the auction of this tiny 1 3/4" doll along with the message shown below. That same doll has now returned to Theriault's from the home of that last collector, seeking a new home. She is the final catalog doll of an auction fittingly titled, "One Thing Leads to Another".