Onsite
Highest Bidder
$28,000
Sold
sold
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- Estimate
- $9,000 / $13,000
Description
20" (51 cm.) Cloth doll with pressed and oil-painted complexion, hair and facial features, short brown shaded hair, brown eyes in well-defined and outlined eye sockets, feathered brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth, firmly-stuffed body with stitch jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, defined separately-stitched thumbs. Condition: fair/good, extensive craquelure and paint wear, hands worn. Comments: Izannah Walker, circa 1865, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Value Points: the well loved doll is wearing her original gauze printed dress, undergarments, transfer stamped apron, and carries red knit cap.