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Description
22" (56 cm.) Pink-tinted porcelain shoulderhead, black sculpted center-parted hair with two uniform finger curls, blue painted eyes, red and black upper eyeliner, single stroke brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with upturned lip corners, muslin stitch-jointed body, leather arms. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1855. Value Points: the doll owns her original handsewn trousseau which comprises three dresses, night shirt, undergarments, apron, hooded jacket, and shoes. The doll is shown in The Art of the Doll, 1700-1940 by Madeline Merrill, page 10, who wrote that a note once accompanied the doll. viz. "Boston, Nov. 27, 1854, My dear little Fanny, The bearer of this note, Mabel Lee, is an orphan whom your cousins, the orphans, found one day. She was very naked, though not very poor, as her plumpness will show..." The doll was sent to Fannie Hooper on her birthday, November 17, 1854, and was costumed by her aunt. The doll was also written about in Doll Collectors Manual 1983, by Madeline Merrill and was acquired by Lorna Lieberman from the collection of Estelle Johnston of whose collection it rested for more than 40 years.