#375

American Wooden Art Character Boy, Model 201, by Schoenhut with Carved Hair
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$1,500
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$700 / $900
Description
16" (41 cm.) All-wooden doll with socket head, carved and painted brown hair with well-defined forelock curls and brushstroked details, small painted brown eyes, black pupils and white eye dots, closed mouth with downcast lips, impressed chin dimple, wooden spring-jointed body. Condition: generally excellent, darker paint finish is original. Marks: Schoenhut Doll Pat. Jan. 17, '11 USA & Foreign Countries. Comments: Schoenhut, model 201, a similar example of this doll appears in Schoenhut Dolls by Carol Corson, page 132, describing the finish as suntanned looking, indicating 1930 era painting of earlier production. Value Points: well-preserved and all-original wistful-faced character doll, antique mariner costume is likely original.