French Glass-Eyed Paper Mache Mannequin Boy with Wooden Articulated Body

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34" (86 cm.) Paper mache head with tightly-curled sculpted short blonde hair, blue glass inset eyes with spiral threading and darker iris rims, dark eyeliner, tinted brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with accent line between the lips; the head constructed to rest on firm mannequin torso, and having wooden arms and legs with posable jointing at shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips and knees, wearing antique blue woolen mariner costume, laced ankle boots. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: French, circa 1880. Value Points: very fine detail of hair sculpting, beautiful early eyes, on very posable sturdy early mannequin body.