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Description
17" (43 cm.) All-cloth doll with pressed and oil-painted facial features and hair, soft curls framing the face and forming into a deep forelock curl on forehead, shaded brown eyes, black and brown upper eyeliner, accented nostrils, closed mouth, stitch-jointing at shoulders, separately-stitched thumbs, disc-jointing at hips, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Kathe Kruse Germany (feet, and illegible number). Comments: Kathe Kruse, Series I, circa 1915. Value Points: sought-after compelling expression on the early model Kruse is wonderfully achieved on this example, with original painted finish.