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Description
15" (38 cm.) Firmly-pressed stockinette cloth doll with oil-painted complexion, facial features and blonde hair drawn smoothly around her forehead and forming into two extended braids, painted small blue eyes with white eyedots, black upper lashes, accented nostrils, closed mouth, blushed cheeks, sateen torso cover, oil-painted limbs with stitch-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, separately-stitched thumbs, antique costume is included. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Martha Chase of Rhode Island, circa 1910, who introduced a series of dolls presumably based on storybook characters, this being "Little Nell" from the Dickens book, The Old Curiosity Shop. Value Points: very rare doll in impeccable original condition with beautiful painting and intricate construction of hair.