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Description
12" (30 cm.) Bisque socket head, blue glass paperweight inset eyes, painted lashes, dark eyeliner, brushstroked brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with shaded lips, pierced ears, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully-jointed body with straight wrists. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Depose Jumeau (and artist checkmarks, head) Jumeau Medaille d'Or Paris (body). Comments: Emile Jumeau, circa 1884. Value Points: the rare model Jumeau has beautiful eyes and finest bisque, original body and body finish, antique costume, and is holding her own little all-bisque glass-eyed googly doll with swivel head and painted blue shoes, wonderful antique costume, signed 203, also in excellent condition.