American "Ida Bell" by Kindness Woods

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17.5" (44 cm.) Paper mache, painted facial features with brown eyes, black hair and eyelashes, wearing a green patterned skirt with matching green jacket trimmed with brown fur around the collar, matching brown fur muff, matching green turban with feather accent and golden pin with pearl details, standing atop an attached doll stand. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: "Ida Bell Doll, 1-02, Kindness Woods (20's + 30's Doll)" (base of the doll). Comments: Kindness Woods, 2002, American doll artist who lived in Tacoma, WA. Value Points: doll is signed on the base of the stand, fine costume in the style of the 1920s-30s, bold red lip color with dramatic eyelashes. Ex-collection Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art.