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26" (66 cm.) boy, 24" girl. Highlighted by a bisque socket head boy with highly-characterized facial expression and whitened complexion, brown glass paperweight inset eyes, very dark eyeliner and painted lashes, brush-stroked and multi-feathered brows, rose blushed eye shadow, shaded nostrils, closed mouth sculpted in wide beaming smile with shaded and outlined lips and row of sculpted teeth, separately applied pierced ears, brunette mohair wig over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully-jointed original body. With a bisque socket head girl with blue glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner, painted dark lashes and feathered arched brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with outlined lips, pierced ears, brunette human hair over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully-jointed original body. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 203 Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 11 (boy) Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 10 (girl) Bebe Jumeau Diplome d'Honneur (body of each). Comments: Emile Jumeau, late 19th century, it is likely the pair were costumed to appear at an Exposition, possibly Jumeau's special exhibit he prepared for the 1899 Paris International Exposition and for which he published a series of color-illustrated postcards that showed the 200 character series. This particular pair of dolls were featured on the cover of the UFDC Doll News in February 1965, then in the private collection of Mrs. Gordon Bennett of Oakland, California, before joining the collection of Vera Bryant from which it was acquired by Sandy Kralovetz. Value Points: the exceptional couple, he being from the very rare Jumeau 200 character series, are wearing their original ivory silk satin theatrical costumes with matching aqua kid gloves and satin shoes with aqua pom-poms, created in the workshops of Ernestine Jumeau, and he having the rare red silk banner "Bebe Jumeau".