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Description
15" (38 cm.) Ivory sateen doll with center-seam face, embroidered blue/brown eyes, brows, nostrils and lips, defined pointy chin, blonde fleecy tousled hair, five-piece body with jointing at shoulders and hips. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Polish Victim's Relief Fund/ Health and Happiness to You, Kind Doll Lover, Who by taking into your heart and home one of my little doll waifs of Poland have fed a starving mother or child in that ‘saddest land', Helena Paderewski, copyright 1915 (attached original gilded medal). Comments: French, circa 1915, Madame Helena Paderewski, wife of the celebrated pianist, used her celebrity-hood to oversee the production of artistic cloth dolls that were sold to society ladies to benefit widows and orphans of WWI. Value Points: the rare doll, with delightful expression, is perfectly-preserved, has original costume and medallion.