American Hand-Painted Topsy-Turvy from Babyland Rag

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12" (30 cm.) An alternate doll head is posed on either side of a muslin torso, and designed so that the full-length costume which accompanies each head will hide the alternate head. When the doll is flipped over, the second head and second costume appear. Each head has muslin face with hand-painted facial features and hair including a blue-eyed white-complexioned girl wearing blue print dress and apron, and a brown-eyed brown-complexioned girl wearing red cotton dress, with apron and bandanna. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: early model of Babyland Rag's Topsy-Turvy, circa 1895. Value Points: well-preserved original costumes on the early models.