$3,000
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Description
19" (48 cm.) All-cloth doll with egg-shaped head, flat-dimensional face, oil-painted facial features and hair, painted brown eyes with shaded details and brown outline, single stroke brows, rounded nose, closed mouth with well-shaped lips, brown swirled painted curls, stitch-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, oil-painted lower arms and legs, bare feet. Condition: generally excellent, few very rubs on chin and limbs. Marks: Columbian Doll Emma E. Adams Oswego Centre N.Y. (stamp on torso). Comments: the cottage industry dolls of Emma Adams were presented at the Chicago International Exposition ("Columbian Exposition") of 1892 wherein they were awarded the Gold Medal, the first American doll to win this international award. Value Points: especially fine artistic painting on the rare signed doll, with original body and wearing original dress and bonnet. The doll bears several blue ribbon awards including 1989 Doll Collectors of America award and ephemera from the 1892 Columbian Exposition including a commemorative booklet with photographs of each exhibition building, softpaste pin tray with image, two cast metal souvenir pieces, and a wonderful stoneware crock with blue design indicating "Manufactured by the Central N.Y. Pottery, Ithaca N.Y."