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Description
18" (46 cm.) Solid domed bisque socket head with sculpted hair under flocked original finish, blue glass paperweight inset eyes, brown eyeliner, brown painted lashes and brows, accented nostrils, slightly-parted lips with row of porcelain teeth, French composition and wooden fully-jointed body. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: SFBJ 237 Paris 4. Comments: SFBJ, circa 1915. Value Points: handsome lad with splendid eyes, rare flocked hair, is wearing his original costume from the 1915 exhibition of costumed dolls at the Margaine-Lacroix studio in Paris including headdress and belt with figural coin emblems, the tunic bearing the original silk label "Margaine-Lacroix 19 Boulevard Haussmann Paris".